[tahoe-dev] Random access to files

[zooko]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:03 AM, zooko wrote:
>> Is it really as simple as restricting the range of this for loop?
>
> Yes. [...]
> Heh heh heh!  Now I see that Brian wrote a reply to your message  
> saying that it is rather more complicated than this! [...]
> I guess it is up to you to dive in and figure out just how hard it  
> really is.  ;-)

P.S.  And of course the way that we tell whether it worked is unit  
tests.  Add a test function to this file:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/src/allmydata/test/ 
test_immutable.py?rev=3416

which tries to download just a subset of the data.  To make sure that  
the initialization issue is right, download a subset, wait til that  
download has succeeded, then download a different subset (or the same  
subset again), and also (in a separate test function) download  
several subsets at once (i.e, all in the same reactor tick) so that  
the downloader code has to hold those requests until the  
initialization is done and then satisfy all the requests.

Regards,

Zooko
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