From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mikadoZero Subject: Re: Software Heritage & Guix Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:58:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wokh8y4p.fsf@gnu.org> <871s2n0zxn.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBUFJ-0006TA-Mm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:59:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBUFI-00066Y-FE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:59:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <871s2n0zxn.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > ...=20 > Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer > networks: it=E2=80=99s something where you want availability guarantee, w= hereas > peer-to-peer storage networks usually replicate content that=E2=80=99s po= pular, > while unpopular content disappears. > ... As IPFS is already being discussed on the Guix mailing list I looked into it as an example of how it deals with this "availability guarantee". There is a relevant section in their documentation on pinning services which seems to address this directly: https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/pinning So maybe peer to peer data storage networks can do long-term archival. I am just using IPFS as an example there are alternatives to it.