I wanted to share some thoughts for an idea I had.
There are times when I want to stream data from a remote -- I want to start processing it immediately, and do not want to keep it in my annex when I am done with it.
I can give some examples:
* I have several projects which have a large number of similar text files, and they compress really well with borg or bup. For example, I have a repo with many [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) json index files. They total 60G, but in a bup special remote, they are ~3G. In another repo, I have large highly differential tsv files.
* I have an annex with 5-10G video files that are stored in a variety of network special remotes. Most of them are in my Google Drive. I would like to be able to immediately start playing them with VLC rather than downloading and verifying them in their entirety.