No, S3, as MinIO, has a read-after-write consistency. So indexing would block on either writes or reads until it is done. We block when doing the zip indexing,

No, S3, as MinIO, has a read-after-write consistency. So indexing would block on either writes or reads until it is done. We block when doing the zip indexing, but that is much more lightweight - and we limit to 100MB ZIP directory. That way we don't risk long-blocking index operations.