Allow storing actual data content and large meta-data as additional references

[hunterhector]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, the whole data pack is stored in one place, which includes the metadata, the actual data, and optionally the creation records. Serializing and deserializing such data is a very time-consuming process. In cases like the initialization stage, we only need to check the meta-data for basic validations, thus loading the actual data content would be a waste of time.

Describe the solution you'd like A feature that stores the real data content, or additional creation records as separate files/pointers on a disk would be great, then doing loading, the system can "lazy load" just the meta data first, and then only take the actual data when requested.

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