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I agree that it doesn't prevent it. Traversing a graph is a simple compsci problem, but optimizing it is more complicated. My guess is that it prevent caching
by kyrra 6y ago
I agree that it doesn't prevent it. Traversing a graph is a simple compsci problem, but optimizing it is more complicated. My guess is that it prevent caching of folder sizes, so any size checks require full graph walks, which are not cheap.
- kyrra 6y agoAnother complication I thought of: permissions. While this may not matter as much for consumer drive product, for Google Drive within an organization, permissions are per object. So 2 people looking at the same folder may see different content. This impacts folder-size, as any given person may only see a subset of the content within a folder.