From 56fd24de0d07f8e642deb681c7fb44db03ed32b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya_Shlyakhter Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:18:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added suggestion for importing files from special remotes without downloading them --- doc/todo/importing_from_special_remote_without_downloading.mdwn | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/importing_from_special_remote_without_downloading.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/importing_from_special_remote_without_downloading.mdwn b/doc/todo/importing_from_special_remote_without_downloading.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3583750131 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/importing_from_special_remote_without_downloading.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The documentation for the new import remote command says, "Importing from a special remote first downloads all new content from it". For many special remotes -- such as Google Cloud Storage or DNAnexus -- checksums and sizes of files can be determined without downloading the files. For other special remotes, data files might have associated checksum files (e.g. md5) stored next to them in the remote. In such cases, it would help to be able to import the files without downloading (which can be costly, especially from cloud provider egress charges), similar to addurl --fast .