There's more to that story ... in fact, the metadata special device was not the magic bullet we hoped it would be. The real magic bullet was changing the "free

There's more to that story ... in fact, the metadata special device was not the magic bullet we hoped it would be. The real magic bullet was changing the "freezing" process where we transform 'borg' the python script into 'borg' the binary executable. You'll see a full writeup of this in the Q4 technical notes :)