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Re:IPFS Pics by e12e on Friday October 23, 2015 @04:32AM (#10437469)
Out of curiosity (I haven't got an IPFS installation on hand, so I can't test) -- what'd be the effect of adding a:

  curl https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTtmsSSTH5fMQ9fn9NRXWtcZXnBBazxR8fidXcE5KB76h
before the "rm -R"-line? I'm guessing it might not be something the gateway servers are set up for doing ATM -- but maybe they should, or a cluster of IPFS node should be set up for that?

I'm not sure if forcing a full download of the whole file is a waste of bandwidth, or a clever way to force the person adding a file to the cache at least perform some effort by "using" the same amount of incoming bandwidth as the cache nodes would have to on the back-end.

My initial thought was that such a system should allow "seeding" the cache by simply sending a HEAD or similar request...

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Re:IPFS Pics by whyrusleeping on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:45AM (#10437961)
Yeah, you can definitely force the gateways to cache content for you. Just make sure not to rely on that for keeping things available, they run a garbage collection every hour or so to clear up disk space.
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