Re:An introduction to IPFS
by noffle on Friday February 19, 2016 @06:45PM
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The "FS" part of IPFS can be misleading: you can store arbitrary data in IPFS.
The tooling merely provides a means of viewing Merkle DAGs (the base data structure) as a file hierarchy because it's a pretty clean 1:1 mapping that's familiar to many people.
The tooling merely provides a means of viewing Merkle DAGs (the base data structure) as a file hierarchy because it's a pretty clean 1:1 mapping that's familiar to many people.