> I don't quite follow: when you say an "external location" do you mean in file(s) in the file system but not in the file system's internal structure itself? T

> I don't quite follow: when you say an "external location" do you mean in file(s) in the file system but not in the file system's internal structure itself? That's exactly what I mean. My version of index_server stored the index in a directory called "index" in the root of every volume it indexed. I'm not sure what the new one does. Note that moving the index out of BFS was merely an idea that was bounced around the ML.