That's brilliant! I think that means it should also support reading the file in chunks, as it gets downloaded, automatically.
I wonder how purging less important files is/could be handled through this? It would be good if there was some way to say, "this file is likely only going to be used temporarily (or just once), so feel free to delete it if disk space is required". That hinting might not be necessary as IPFS could use some least-recently used algorithm, but there should be some way to at least pin files, "this is really important, don't delete this".
I wonder how purging less important files is/could be handled through this? It would be good if there was some way to say, "this file is likely only going to be used temporarily (or just once), so feel free to delete it if disk space is required". That hinting might not be necessary as IPFS could use some least-recently used algorithm, but there should be some way to at least pin files, "this is really important, don't delete this".