-- a/hellnet/tech/metatrees++ b/hellnet/tech/metatrees
@@ -8,25 +8,32 @@

bc. {
"updated" : 1258639915,
"key" : "hell://file/22fea70fde222e2463b1dd716fa9f7faf75d90ebc6517333643826348c05950021fd2a2b31dcb23c1971149adf952bd1f38763b2338708acd12e97823a5017d2?key=a1234567", "hell://chunk/22fea70fde222e2463b1dd716fa9f7faf75d90ebc6517333643826348c05950021fd2a2b31dcb23c1971149adf952bd1f38763b2338708acd12e97823a5017d2?key=a1234567",
"name" : "test", "test"
"content" : {
"helloworld" : "hell://file/18895861928ce6793b3386d0fccacfcca35b2aa845fc895f06013fbac50ef9cbf1f77352f041b3f82fbce109b209cd09ff763d2a95c0eba2a21967dbe32f39e5.35abcdef",
"hellodir" : {
"file1" : "hell://file/7c657811658adf5d5f77bf571270a8ad242ed454fb353ff90f6ad6248edcba14fd155b8a78ad9af53fc4a58dd10464295322655ade5264598a7b5e537032d539",
"file2" : "hell://file/2fc800b58bf1903d8b98a007f301d4e59baf69f9e60609e00e4cfa0c6f8307ff8abb2155c8ff2642eb687b296c99ca95ae49e322ef3f95eadddada011149e737"
}
} "hell://chunk/e4dfde12d6612f9816d1e924c274689e5236af74db23d14cf76bee0fc49690398f1c32bce9db951305a62906c4344c04a5682b1c6bdf64e219c2dde2810b44da"
}
<empty line>
<binary RSA signature>

Description of top-level fields:

"updated" : UNIX timestamp of last update
"key" : hash of link to public key
"name" : name of this meta
"content" : link to meta tree

That would be stored under URI hell://chunk/e4dfde12d6612f9816d1e924c274689e5236af74db23d14cf76bee0fc49690398f1c32bce9db951305a62906c4344c04a5682b1c6bdf64e219c2dde2810b44da:

bc. {
"helloworld" : "hell://file/18895861928ce6793b3386d0fccacfcca35b2aa845fc895f06013fbac50ef9cbf1f77352f041b3f82fbce109b209cd09ff763d2a95c0eba2a21967dbe32f39e5",
"hellodir" : {
"file1" : "hell://file/7c657811658adf5d5f77bf571270a8ad242ed454fb353ff90f6ad6248edcba14fd155b8a78ad9af53fc4a58dd10464295322655ade5264598a7b5e537032d539",
"file2" : "hell://file/2fc800b58bf1903d8b98a007f301d4e59baf69f9e60609e00e4cfa0c6f8307ff8abb2155c8ff2642eb687b296c99ca95ae49e322ef3f95eadddada011149e737"
}
}

This JSON represents a filesystem with unlimited subdirectories, keys are filenames, values are hell:// links (only /chunk or /file)

Metatrees are stored in ./meta/$public_key_hash/$name (metatree itself), /meta/$public_key_hash/$name.date (value of "updated" field), /meta/$public_key_hash/$name.sign (detached signature)


h3. See also