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-## To request a quant, open an new discussion in the Community tab (preferably with the url in the title)
+## To request a quant, open an new discussion in the Community tab (preferably with the url in the title)
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+## Mini-FAQ
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+- What does the "-i1" mean in "-i1-GGUF"?
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+- Why are you doing this?
+
+- You have amazing hardware!?!?!
+
+- Why don't you use gguf-split?
+
+TL;DR: I don't have the hardware/resources for that.
+
+Long answer: gguf-split requires a full copy for every quant.
+Unlike what many people think, my hardware is rather outdated and not very fast. The extra processing that gguf-split requires
+either runs out of space on my systems with fast disk, or takes a very long time and a lot of I/O bandwidth on the slower
+disks, all of which already run at their limits. Supporting gguf-split would mean
+
+While this is the blocking reason, I also find it less than ideal that yet another incompatible file format was created that
+requires special tools to manage, instead of supporting the tens of thousands of existing quants, of which the vast majority
+could just be mmapped together into memory from split files. That doesn't keep me from supporting it, but it would have
+been nice to look at the existing reality and/or consult the community before throwing yet another hard to support format out
+there without thinking.