https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/SmartStore-What-is-splunkIgnore/m-p/416195#M3646 <P>I was working with some s2 data for bootstrapping and I found a .splunkIgnore file under the rawdata directory. Just curious what it does, if anything</P> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:21:52 GMT rbal_splunk 2019-01-21T22:21:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/SmartStore-What-is-splunkIgnore/m-p/416195#M3646 <P>I was working with some s2 data for bootstrapping and I found a .splunkIgnore file under the rawdata directory. Just curious what it does, if anything</P> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:21:52 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/SmartStore-What-is-splunkIgnore/m-p/416195#M3646 rbal_splunk 2019-01-21T22:21:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/SmartStore-What-is-splunkIgnore/m-p/416196#M3647 <P>since s3 does not have a notion of a directory, if there is a request to upload an empty directory it will put down a .splunkIgnore file, to "create" it</P> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:22:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/SmartStore-What-is-splunkIgnore/m-p/416196#M3647 rbal_splunk 2019-01-21T22:22:16Z