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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-01-13 16:16:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-01-13 16:16:02 -0400 |
| commit | bcf835ac81b0901aa9794abff7294c55da0e4bf3 (patch) | |
| tree | 55a77c0c25591861079eaeef2fc22fca3ae7de4c /doc | |
| parent | 4a0106680be743f4f494782ec6cb1d8e96d0a7aa (diff) | |
close; all special remotes that can reasonably support chunking now do
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/chunking.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/Chunks_support_in_all_special_remotes.mdwn | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/chunking.mdwn b/doc/chunking.mdwn index 71b330d64..20a5c6088 100644 --- a/doc/chunking.mdwn +++ b/doc/chunking.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Some [[special_remotes]] have support for breaking large files up into +Most [[special_remotes]] have support for breaking large files up into chunks that are stored on the remote. This can be useful to work around limitations on the size of files diff --git a/doc/todo/Chunks_support_in_all_special_remotes.mdwn b/doc/todo/Chunks_support_in_all_special_remotes.mdwn index d6a1509f7..6d25ba684 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Chunks_support_in_all_special_remotes.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Chunks_support_in_all_special_remotes.mdwn @@ -3,3 +3,8 @@ The special remote `directory` support files split in chunks, other special remo Support for chunks is useful, for example, to be able to upload large files over slow, unreliable connections or to minimize the amount of data to be sent when only part of a big file has been changed. Couldn't the code used to split, checksum and reconstruct the files in the `directory` remote be used also in all the other special remotes? + +> [[done]]; nearly all special remotes support chunking now, and the ones +> that don't omit it for their own reasons, for example bup is not sped up +> by using chunks, and glacier needs some additional work to support them. +> --[[Joey]] |