[tahoe-dev] blocks instead of files?

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

Kevan Carstensen wrote:
> At 2010-03-10 23:27 (+0000), David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> 
>> That it isn't true for mutable files is, as far as I know, just a temporary
>> limitation of the current mutable download/upload code (which does work in
>> terms of segments, but hasn't been optimized to reduce its memory usage by
>> doing so).
> 
> This is true in the sense that the entire mutable file is treated as one
> segment, AFAIK. Is that what you meant?

In the sense that the storage format and the 'mutable retrieve' code still
works in terms of arbitrary-length segments (as far as I can tell), but the
'mutable publish' code happens to choose the segment size so that there is
only one segment.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood  ⚥  http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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