From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:06:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ee002a1.AEEAOtIRgN0AAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZkAF3@mailjet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170811151019.GB20919@thebird.nl>
Pjotr Prins writes:
> By hosting source packages on IPFS they become content addressable and
> should scale for downloads. It would also become a safe way of
> distributing data.
>
> https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
>
> Essentially the interplanetary file system allows for distributed
> storage servers and a distributed DNS style resolution for finding
> files. It allows people to share storage and by pooling storage we
> can provide resilient access to all source packages. Especially the
> ones that prove dodgy now.
>
> This should be fairly trivial to implement as long as some of us can
> commit some storage. We could use the build farm.
>
> Next we can do the same for binary Guix packages. It would make for
> way faster downloads when the Guix-deamon supports the protocol.
>
> Can we look into this? Who of us can host IPFS and expose port 4001? I
> can put in some.
Yes, I think we should look into this. I can host IPFS on port 4001 of
my home server. I have rather low bandwidth (around 1 Mbps of upspeed,
at best), but I can do my bit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-13 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-11 15:10 Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages Pjotr Prins
2017-08-11 15:33 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-08-11 19:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-08-12 13:58 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-08-13 7:36 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2017-08-22 8:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-22 8:38 ` ng0
2017-08-22 9:14 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-08-22 10:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-22 16:49 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-08-22 22:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-22 19:31 ` ng0
2017-08-22 9:17 ` ng0
[not found] <mailman.1213.1502464262.21956.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2017-08-11 15:44 ` Joshua Sierles
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