From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror? Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 18:03:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20181204170334.dnlccxjnbz6lbs5j@thebird.nl> References: <20181203154335.10366-1-ludo@gnu.org> <87tvju6145.fsf@gnu.org> <34d346ac-fc0a-aac2-f092-8a57e345c4e6@goebel-consult.de> <87woop1j5z.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 ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47217) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUEEe-0002Ct-Ns for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:11:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUE6i-0000Jj-S1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:03:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87woop1j5z.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 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: Hartmut Goebel , guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:05:44PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Florian has been looking at the latter approach with IPFS, and perhaps > we=E2=80=99ll be able to put it in production in a few months and be ha= ppy with > it (I have good hopes given what Florian already demonstrated.) >=20 > In the meantime, we need redundant storage, high bandwidth, and high > availability. If you know of non-profit organizations that can provide > such services, please let us know; if not, we=E2=80=99ll resort to a co= mmercial > service. The bottom line is: we cannot reasonably pretend to offer suc= h > a service ourselves. >=20 > (Note that we=E2=80=99re just talking about substitute delivery=E2=80=94= I wouldn=E2=80=99t want > to *build* packages on one of these commercial hosting services.) IPFS would be great because it will allow anyone to lookup and share substitutes with a low barrier to entry and it allows for redundancy too. Unlike bittorrent it comes with a built in webinterface and it is a merkle tree with local deduplication.=20 I think IPFS is a pretty solid proposition since so many are building solutions on it. Pj.