Csepp <raingl...@riseup.net> writes:
> I have a question / suggestion about the distributed substitutes > project: would downloads be split into uniformly sized chunks or could > the sizes vary? > Specifically, in an extreme case where an update introduced a single > extra byte at the beginning of a file, would that result in completely > new chunks? > > An alternative I've been thinking about is this: > find the store references in a file and split it along these references, > optionally apply further chunking to the non-reference blobs. > > It's probably best to do this at the NAR level?? > > Storing reference offsets is already something that we should be doing to > speed other operations up, so this could tie in nicely with that. I was sent this link that others might find interesting: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/nixos/future-of-nix-substitution/
