On Wednesday, 2020-08-19 at 15:11:37 +01, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > 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?
This implementation is curl specific, as you probably surmised. I will look at implementing something similar as a block filter. dme. -- Facts don't do what I want them to.
