Re:Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
by dgoldstein0 on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @06:36AM
(#10190671)
Based on my reading of this article, IPFS doesn't specify how you store the content - just that the content you provide back matches the requested hash. So in theory this could easily be implemented under the hood.
Though perhaps I'm misunderstanding your question - if you want multiple IPFS nodes to coordinated on storing parts of an erasure encoded file? that would be useful too. Again I think it's possible - you could build a small distributed system to host files this way. The most interesting variant though is if IPFS could have support for something like this natively - so nodes run by different users can each pitch in a little. Conceptually it's possible, but probably the protocol doesn't support it.
Though perhaps I'm misunderstanding your question - if you want multiple IPFS nodes to coordinated on storing parts of an erasure encoded file? that would be useful too. Again I think it's possible - you could build a small distributed system to host files this way. The most interesting variant though is if IPFS could have support for something like this natively - so nodes run by different users can each pitch in a little. Conceptually it's possible, but probably the protocol doesn't support it.