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previously, upon opening a file for reading, the open() call would block while the entire file was retrieved from tahoe into the cache directory. This change adds a DownloaderWithReadQueue class, and associated plumbing, such that an open() will return promptly with the download initiated 'in the background'. Subsequent read() operations will block until enough data has been downloaded to satisfy that request. This provides a behaviour similar to streaming, i.e. the client application will be able to read data from the fuse interface while the remainder of the file is still being downloaded.
Welcome to the Tahoe project [1], a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem. All of the source code is available under a Free Software, Open Source licence (or two). Please see docs/about.html for an introduction, docs/install.html for install instructions, docs/running.html for usage instructions. Finally, see docs/known_issues.txt for things that you need to know about if you are relying on Tahoe to store your valuable data. [1] http://allmydata.org