From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:16:08 +0200 Message-ID: <8736jqqcuv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ef4g2zfq.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87sgryhg7y.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87pnmzyt9u.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef3eznuv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hhtM7-00062L-2V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2019 06:16:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ef3eznuv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:04:40 +0200") 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: Guix-devel Hi, Pierre Neidhardt 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 =E2=80=9CUnixFS=E2=80=9D & co. I can no longer find the code that we looke= d 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 =E2=80=98guix publish=E2=80=99 busy. Ludo=E2=80=99.