On 10/20/10 5:53 AM, slush wrote: > Hi, > > I found that TahoeLAFS solves support for "Range" header with > downloading whole file from grid and then returning a subset of original > file. Is that because downloading just of small piece of file is > impossible in Tahoe by it's design or just because nobody > ask/implemented partial downloads from grid better?
This was fixed in 1.8.0 (at least for immutable files) by my "new-downloader" project. The new code only downloads the segments (typically 128KiB each) that overlap the range you requested. Tahoe's file-encoding scheme was specifically designed to make it efficient to download individual segments with minimal overhead (about 0.5%, if I remember rightly), but up until 1.8.0, we hadn't gotten around to taking advantage of it. cheers, -Brian _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
