@samuelburri I’m very interested in to learn more about the canister forking feature seen in the “later” row of the Core protocol column. It was also mentioned here by Dominic (starts at 11:10).
I’m specifically interested in the scope of this feature, and some initial thoughts on what changes will need to be made to the protocol in order to support this (high level details/potential engineering approaches).
Having Efficient ways to clone a canister’s data would make it significantly easier to re-partition canisters and their data.
Also, with the upcoming DTS feature, this could allow the user to dynamically add secondary indexes to a live data set (and not have to anticipate all application use cases and data access patterns from the beginning).