Hello, I'm trying to understand lakeFS better: The...
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Hello, I'm trying to understand lakeFS better: The key-value store is in DynamoDB (for us). In the S3 bucket of a repo, what is stored in _lakefs/ and is there any crucial metadata? I see that part of it is garbage collection info. If we accidentally delete or somehow lose an object in _lakefs/, what is the risk? Will the API still be usable?
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Metadata for uncommitted changes are stored in DynamoDB while metadata for committed changes are stored in S3
If you accidentally delete _lakefs folder then some of the functionalities will not work.
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Thank you for the clarification, @Amit Kesarwani!
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To emphasize @Amit Kesarwani comment, deleting data from _lakefs prefix can potentially lead to data loss
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