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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:16:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736jqqcuv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ef3eznuv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:04:40 +0200")

Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> All good, I had a look at the discussion and I'll study the patch a bit
> more.
>
> Today I learnt that Nix also had tried the same thing some 2 years
> back.  And they ran into scalability issues.  Maybe we should ask the
> Nix folks.  Does anyone know more details about this?

I remember discussing it with lewo of NixOS at the R-B Summit.  My
recollection is that the prototype that had been developed was using
IPFS in a brute-force fashion, something like directly storing nars and
narinfos, as opposed to storing individual files from the store using
“UnixFS” & co.  I can no longer find the code that we looked at though,
that was somewhere on GitHub.

Note also that inserting files in IPFS takes quite a bit of CPU time and
memory, so that also could take ‘guix publish’ busy.

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-01 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-30  7:07 Lightning talk at IPFS camp Pierre Neidhardt
2019-05-31 22:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-03 15:15 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-03 16:19   ` Pronaip
2019-06-03 18:53     ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-06  8:13       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-06 12:15         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-06 12:36           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-06 16:53             ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-07 12:39             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-07 13:48               ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-07 20:10                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-07 12:41             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-07 13:45               ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-06-13 21:38         ` ng0
2019-06-24 20:37 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-26 12:19   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-27 14:53   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-27 22:04     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 10:16       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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