For small files that's fine but for large, multi-gigabyte files it's inefficient to download the entire thing on access because certain operations might only require a quick open/close of the file to read the first few megabytes (for instance reading media metadata using mediainfo or ffmpeg).
For small files that's fine but for large, multi-gigabyte files it's inefficient to download the entire thing on access because certain operations might only require a quick open/close of the file to read the first few megabytes (for instance reading media metadata using mediainfo or ffmpeg).