+This change introduces a relatively novel use of the CAR format in that it contains one very large block, much larger than typical blocks found in most CAR containers for use with IPLD data. At the time of this proposal, this block size would be approximately TODO MiB and this will only grow over time. While this is not disallowed by the CAR specification, many CAR processing utilities are built on an assumption of classic IPFS style blocks of more more than approximately 1MiB each. Some CAR tooling may struggle to deal with the new proposed format, although handling CAR data outside of the narrow use-case of snapshort imports on Filecoin nodes is not typical or necessarily recommended.
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