[Swift-user] When to use Coaster filesystem data provider?

[Ben Clifford]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> Please explain (on this list and/or in the userguide) more about this 
> data provider method:

It was/is an attempt to get better performance for small files (on the 
order of bytes/kilobytes). I haven't done any measurements on how it 
performs vs gridftp, though Mihael may have done.

Its been around for a few months.

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