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This is really cool, but why reinvent the wheel? For instance SQLite already has tons of years of optimization regarding storing and accessing files on disk. To make SQLite decentralized (like Hyperdrive) you can put in a torrent. Index it using full-text-search https://sqlite.org/fts5.html for instance. Then let the users seed it. Users can use sqltorrent Virtual File System ( https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorren…
This is really cool, but why reinvent the wheel? For instance SQLite already has tons of years of optimization regarding storing and accessing files on disk. To make SQLite decentralized (like Hyperdrive) you can put in a torrent. Index it using full-text-search https://sqlite.org/fts5.html for instance. Then let the users seed it. Users can use sqltorrent Virtual File System ( https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorren…
How soon until this can replace Dropbox for my little distributed working group consisting of 3 people wanting to share a single file system?
This is really cool, but why reinvent the wheel? For instance SQLite already has tons of years of optimization regarding storing and accessing files on disk. To make SQLite decentralized (like Hyperdrive) you can put in a torrent. Index it using full-text-search https://sqlite.org/fts5.html for instance. Then let the users seed it. Users can use sqltorrent Virtual File System ( https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorren…
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Do you have any good solutions for this exact use case yet?
Checked Tahoe-LAFS, Perkeep, but they are too low level. Haven't tried Resilio Connect yet, although I would prefer something open-sourced. I think we have all the tech needed already (WebRTC, DHT, NAT hole punching, decades of p2p, encryption, onion security, StorJ/Filecoin) etc but what is lacking is dead simple UX and wide support of operating systems - Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux (Raspberry, Synology, cheap…
This is really cool, but why reinvent the wheel? For instance SQLite already has tons of years of optimization regarding storing and accessing files on disk. To make SQLite decentralized (like Hyperdrive) you can put in a torrent. Index it using full-text-search https://sqlite.org/fts5.html for instance. Then let the users seed it. Users can use sqltorrent Virtual File System ( https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorren…
I'm going to read your blog post now, thanks a lot for the new info.
Quick note: it would be nice to ship the hyperdrive daemon as something more self-contained than a npm package. I tried to install it and got some c compile errors. Probably my nodejs version is too old, but you want to have the absolute minimum of friction for users to install it. Beaker comes as an appimage for linux, which worked flawlessly at the first try. Maybe do that for the hyperdrive daemon as well?
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Okay. Let's consider your comment within the context of the discussion taking place. What's your point?
We're discussing an application written in JavaScript that runs outside a browser. So the point is that it is unsurprising to discuss node. It's like if we discussed writing a network app in Python and someone said that the GIL was a problem. Technically, there are python implementations that don't have that problem, but in practice we would almost certainly be talking about something that would have been using cpyth…
Not 'technically' at all. If it's normal python code, and the GIL is the problem, then you can change the interpreter and still use the code. But for something built on node, you can't just pull out node.
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Checked Tahoe-LAFS, Perkeep, but they are too low level. Haven't tried Resilio Connect yet, although I would prefer something open-sourced. I think we have all the tech needed already (WebRTC, DHT, NAT hole punching, decades of p2p, encryption, onion security, StorJ/Filecoin) etc but what is lacking is dead simple UX and wide support of operating systems - Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux (Raspberry, Synology, cheap…
Yeah there are no turnkey solutions that I'm aware of. Which is why every time there's a thread like this I come to see what the rumpus is. I'm still waiting for a 'Drobo' like device without the proprietary physical layout. A light or dial goes into orange territory, you head to Best Buy or Amazon and buy the biggest drive that doesn't give you sticker shock, you push a button, out pops your worst drive and in goes…
A freenas box does this as well, but won't have the pretty drive light indicator if it's a home-built box, but then you're not limited to proprietary hardware.