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arXiv:1407.3561cs.NI

IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System

Juan Benet

Abstract

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. In other words, IPFS provides a high throughput content-addressed block storage model, with content-addressed hyper links. This forms a generalized Merkle DAG, a data structure upon which one can build versioned file systems, blockchains, and even a Permanent Web. IPFS combines a distributed hashtable, an incentivized block exchange, and a self-certifying namespace. IPFS has no single point of failure, and nodes do not need to trust each other.

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cs.NINetworking and Internet Architecture cs.DCDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

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  1. JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3 1 comment

    • Nothing around content addressable storage? Has anyone used something like IPFS / Kubo in production at that kind of scale? (for those who don't know IPFS, I find the original paper fascinating: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.3561)

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  2. Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs 1 comment

    • Sadly not that much from the top of my head. I mostly became familiar with it through IPFS[0][1], but the Wikipedia article lists other projects that might have interesting resources[2]. Disclaimer: I'm working on a project[3] to create a content-addressable version of OWL2 (Web…

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