dvfs api and toolkits

[Nielsen]

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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> I would say that for now DVFS shouldn't support seeking and later on we can 
> have a look at applications like you mention above and see what there *exact* 
> needs are. For now they should just download the whole file and seek in 
> there. Later we can make that more optimized on selected backends (mostly 
> centered around http I imagine) I don't think it makes sense to do a poor 
> attempt at generalization at this point if the chance is large that the 
> result of that will still be unusable for the targeted applications.

True, you have a point there. Although from the view of a user DVFS (or
the distro, desktop etc... that uses it) will represent a large
regression for the (somewhat common) use cases presented earlier.

Cheers,
Nate
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