splitting pbf leaves unnecessary nodes inside ways

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: bemysocialdate[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 10.10am, Friday, 1st September 2017]

At the moment i'm on the way to create a pbf reader in node,
and i have realized that when i have split the large world pbf into pieces, and converted to .osm to make it readable, the way contains so many node references, which hasn't got any node definition in the file

No i understand that why the sum of files is far more larger than the original one.