Can someone explain .covefs reparse points to me?

[andrewds]

Each disk in a pool has several reparse files 3-5 months old. I don't recall seeing them before then. I'm not using symlinking for anything I'm doing with this volume. Is it something CoveFS is doing internally? When I look in the contents I see (amongst the encoded characters) that they all appear to be related to stable diffusion models, some of which can get quite large.

Appreciate any thoughts.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

the covefs folder just stores information about the reparse points that are created on the pool.   So if you're seeing them, then something is creating them on the pool.  Messing with them will break them.   And sounds like stable diffusion is using them to organize some of it's data, then.