On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:24:34PM -0400, Gianni Johansson wrote:
> The current SplitFile metadata spec doesn't specify block sizes.
> 
> Why was this done?
> 
> Clients need to know the block size in order to implement reading 
> byte ranges efficiently.  e.g. to support the HTTP Range:  header in fproxy.
> 
> I propose that the spec be changed to include a BlockSize field.
> 
> -- gj
Because the new CHKs include the blocksize in one of the final bytes.
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