whypfs

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Why's Principled File Server

An alternative ipfs daemon.

Why?

This isn't a full reimplementation, but a principled repackaging of the underlying components that make up an ipfs node, using the learnings I gained from building and running estuary. A number of pain points, default settings, and performance issues have been improved, including:

• Fast reference count based pinning
• Significantly improved default bitswap parameters
• Default usage of the accelerated DHT client
• Default flatfs parameters work well at large scales on good filesystems (ext4, xfs, probably others)
• More to come...

API

The api is a simple REST api interface with pretty straightforward semantics that should feel familiar to users of estuary.

TODO: document the api

License

MIT/Apache2 permissive stack