> From: "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:30 AM > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:07:33PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > > > > 'bucket' is a unit that _may_ be read into memory (although it need not) > > > while the 'brigade' may obviously be huge. > > > > No. A bucket is a unit of data. Totally unrelated to reading into memory. > > > > It is *entirely* feasible to create a bucket that represents 20G of data and > > then shove that out a socket. > > Yes, it is feasable. Is it practical?
Well, yea! Consider a pipe bucket. The pipe is a data source and the network is a data sink. We already have code in Apache 2.0 to read from a pipe and dump bytes to the network. Bill
