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[SmartStore] What is .splunkIgnore?

rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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

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rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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

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