Research #13: Research IPFS - lab10 - lab10 PM

Research #13

Research IPFS

Added by didi about 8 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

Status:

In Progress

Priority:

Normal

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Description

IPFS stands for interplanetary file system.
It's quite similar to Bittorrent, but designed and implemented from scratch and with some advanced features added.
The most important added features probably are:

DHT (instead of Trackers)
Merkle Tree (instead of list in torrent file. Combined with the chunking of files, allows automatic deduplication of data on chunk level. Both are proposed as draft extensions to Bittorrent (claims Wikipedia). The auto-scaling is quite similar to Bittorrent automatically seeding a file being downloaded. To pin a file is the same as keeping to seed a file after download.

The main point to do it from scratch instead of modernizing Bittorrent was probably to avoid legacy and (backward) compatibility issues.

IPFS was designed with an additional incentive layer in mind (named Filecoin), but that's not yet ready.
Also see #23.

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History

#1 Updated by didi about 8 years ago

Set up on @ipfs.d10r.net@.

Installed according to "this":https://ipfs.io/docs/install/ and "this":https://ipfs.io/docs/getting-started/ instructions.
Configured as autostarted systemd service like described "here":https://github.com/ipfs/examples/blob/master/examples/init/README.md#systemd.

Port 4001 forwarded on h1.d10r.net.

Using autossh (configured in @.ssh/config@) in order to tunnel to the Web Console.

#2 Updated by didi about 8 years ago

Also tried https://github.com/davidar/ipfs-maps (tiles from "here":http://osm2vectortiles.org/downloads/) but can't yet make much sense of it (how to set it up such that it's not an isolated mirror, but rather part of an OSM CDN?)