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# 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

## What does the "-i1" mean in "-i1-GGUF"?

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## Why are you doing this?

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## You have amazing hardware!?!?!

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## 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Unlike what many people think, my hardware is rather outdated and not very fast.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.

There are some developments to make this less of a pain, and I will revisit this issue from time to time to see if it has become feasible.