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Re:How IPFS is broken by wbolster on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:38AM (#29659567)
this can be solved on the file system layer below.

on my laptop with btrfs this requires no special effort: simply copying the files and renaming them suffices. nautilus (gnome file manager) uses copy on write, and coreutils "cp" also defaults to "reflink" these days.

Re:How IPFS is broken by captn3m0 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @04:46AM (#29660256)
Doesn't work for torrents with RAR/ZIP files. The ref-link is also one-way. If I have existing content on my disk, and want to (partially) seed a torrent - can't do that easily.

I'd like a way to say: "Everything inside /public is public-domain content, seed it against any valid torrent if someone shows up with a valid hash"