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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-07-30 10:43:21 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-07-30 10:43:21 -0400
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mention possibility of parallel chunk upload/download
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@@ -249,3 +249,14 @@ checking hasKey.
Note that this is safe to do only as long as the Key being transferred
cannot possibly have 2 different contents in different repos. Notably not
necessarily the case for the URL keys generated for quvi.
+
+Both **done**.
+
+## parallel
+
+If 2 remotes both support chunking, uploading could upload different chunks
+to them in parallel. However, the chunk log does not currently allow
+representing the state where some chunks are on one remote and others on
+another remote.
+
+Parallel downloading of chunks from different remotes is a bit more doable.