[Owncloud] OwnClouds Future

[Evgeniy Ivanov]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Evgeniy Ivanov <lolkaantimat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   * from what I've read, it doesn't do read-ahead
>
> Well, I'm not sure if it can be done via http. AFAIK you can only
> request some file and that's all since server can do path-->file
> (data) only. Of course there is a way to get only parts of file using
> special convention (but here you fell into trouble with limitations to
> directory structure and some other things) and it's done in python
> very quickly (but here again you will have server side application).
>

Btw, since AFAIK http can provide only full files (not random blocks)
read-ahead can's be done for http-based filesystem, since all you can
is either get full file or get nothing. You don't know what to read
ahead.



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Evgeniy Ivanov