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Format Architecture

crushr is built around a single principle:

Keep truth closest to the data.

Components

  • Extent identity (primary truth)
  • Dictionary system (secondary naming layer)
  • Tail frame (optimization, not authority)

Rejected designs

Design Reason
central manifest single point of failure
metadata-heavy poor corruption resilience
format leadership invalid under partial damage

Final model

  • distributed identity
  • mirrored naming
  • optional coordination structures

This is not stylistic. It is empirically derived.