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Re:DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only ... by nextaccountic on Friday April 12, 2024 @04:53AM (#40010618)
> "play without extracting".

This kind of feature is really important if you to encourage people to seed even after their download is completed.

Re:DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only ... by xialvjun on Friday April 12, 2024 @07:28AM (#40011371)
ipfs mount.

Since ipfs is content-addressable storage, it's readonly. If we make it cow, encourage people to seed is easy.

Re:DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only ... by pdimitar on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:08PM (#40015886)
IPFS is slow as molasses and their solution was to introduce paid pinning services. Complete failure.

And then they announced they will willingly and proactively delete any hash that any legislative agency tells them to, and it was dead in the next minute.

Re:DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only ... by cyanydeez on Saturday April 13, 2024 @04:48PM (#40025953)
Most distributed systems simply don't live up to their theory. Having a hub is simply always easier and consumers hopping temporally from hub to hub is just the most efficient mechanism.
Re:DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only ... by pdimitar on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:13PM (#40026205)
Agreed. The idea behind IPFS is nice but we need to combine it with all the good lessons from the torrent software and stuff like NNCP in order to have something truly distributed, resilient, fault-tolerant and automatically replicated.