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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by Avamander on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:23AM (#24626828)
I don't get why machines running the same Linux distribution couldn't actually do the same. BT2 would indeed work very well for this.
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by e12e on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:57PM (#24630183)
Nixos/guix might be a good fit for rootfs on ipfs? Comes with a local cache, and you could overlay local changes (eg: /etc/passwd)?
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by takeda on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:41PM (#24630723)
Actually not exactly rootfs on ipfs, but with NixOS is fairly easy to make it wipe data on reboot, here's an example article[1]. The idea is to only keep state we care about and rebuild the system on every boot.

[1] https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings

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