explain the cycle that is broken by "map and inline can't generate wikilinks"

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@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ you need/want to.
 
 ## the index
 
-`.ikiwiki/indexdb` contains a cache of information about pages, as well
-as all persisitant state about pages. It used to be a (semi) human-readable
-text file, but is not anymore.
+`.ikiwiki/indexdb` contains a cache of information about pages.
+This information can always be recalculated by rebuilding the wiki.
+(So the file is safe to delete and need not be backed up.)
+It used to be a (semi) human-readable text file, but is not anymore.
 
 To dump the contents of the file, enter a perl command like this.