On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:08:36PM +0100, David Edmondson wrote: > When using qemu-img to convert an image that is hosted on an HTTP > server to some faster local (or pseudo-local) storage, the overall > performance can be improved by reading data from the HTTP server in > larger blocks and by caching and re-using blocks already read. This > set of patches implements both of these, and adds a further patch > allowing an offset to be added to all of the HTTP requests.
Hi David, Thanks for posting this! Kevin and Max are the maintainers in this area, but I wanted to ask an initial question: Is caching curl-specific or could this be implemented as a block filter driver so that it can be stacked on top of other network protocols too? Thanks, Stefan
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