On 2010-09-06 at 05:52, Niklas Edmundsson <ni...@acc.umu.se> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Graham Leggett wrote: >> Been keen to do this for a while, this would definitely solve the >> RAM problem, but wouldn't solve the time problem. Copying 4GB of >> data from a slow disk can easily take minutes, and when Blu-ray >> images start becoming common, the problem would get worse. > > Yup. The next step to solve that would be to be able to serve requests > from cache while they are being cached. I don't know the RFC > implications of doing this, but in real life it's really useful.
That would be cool. If two requests come in for the same 4GB resource close together, it's a shame to to have to retrieve it twice.
