Reminds me of Camlistore, one of the earlier content-addressable personal storage systems, by Brad Fitzpatrick. Now called Perkeep apparently https://perkeep.org/
Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
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Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#12This entire project can be replaced in two different ways with just IPFS. You don't have to run IPFS to be able to add files or retrieve them (if you've added them on the same computer), so simply add the files without running the daemon and you're already "Offline and Private" and "IPFS without the Network". If that's not enough, you can also run your IPFS daemon with `--offline` and it won't connect to any network,…
Hi there, just want to clarify that Nebulus is not a replacement for IPFS or competes with IPFS. In fact it internally uses all the features you just mentioned. In fact it's even powered by JS-IPFS and makes use of the "--only-hash" features and other features you mentioned.
I needed a programmatic way to do all these things (as well as many other user friendly features that the IPFS raw protocol will never provide) and the existing IPFS libraries don't provide a way to do so, so I built it and have been using it from another project, and it was so useful that I decided to extract it out of that project into a standalone one. Just hope others find it useful as well. Thank you.
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hypercore distributes signed log-based structures addressed by pubkey. It embeds indexes in each log entry to make this perform well; for instance Hyperbee is a b-tree over a log. (See https://github.com/hypercore-protocol/p2p-indexing-and-searc... for how that works.) IPFS distributes content-addressed blobs which interlink to form DAGs. Mutability is supported by pubkey (or similar) pointers to recent hashes. I wor…
I mentioned this in above thread, but I am thinking of ways to mash up Nebulus with Hypercore (Because the content addressable aspect has been unbundled from the networking aspect of IPFS, I think there will be some interesting ways to deliver IPFS over Hypercore). Will keep the hypercore community posted when I make some progress, and thank you for all your work with Hypercore. I use Hypercore for several of my proj…
What's the performance like for hypercore? How long does it take for updates and new data to propagate the network? What type of throughput do you get for uploads and downloads?
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#14This entire project can be replaced in two different ways with just IPFS. You don't have to run IPFS to be able to add files or retrieve them (if you've added them on the same computer), so simply add the files without running the daemon and you're already "Offline and Private" and "IPFS without the Network". If that's not enough, you can also run your IPFS daemon with `--offline` and it won't connect to any network,…
I see the “ipfs less” terminology as similar to the term “serverless”. Just like how serverless still has servers but the point is that you don’t have to maintain your own server, ipfs less does make sense in that you don’t have to run ipfs node to use it. But also just like how many people hate the term serverless, ipfs less will be hated by many as well. I guess at the end of the day what’s important is whether something provides value, and I think this is pretty cool technology in that sense. Just my two cents…
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#15What I really want is a private, secure IPFS. I do want the network functionality, but I want it to exist only between my nodes. I know I can pin encrypted blobs, but I want something that handles this transparently. Is this possible somewhere?
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#16What I really want is a private, secure IPFS. I do want the network functionality, but I want it to exist only between my nodes. I know I can pin encrypted blobs, but I want something that handles this transparently. Is this possible somewhere?
run IPFS node in --offline so it doesnt connect to unwanted peers and then stick it behind a firewall so access is controlled?
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#17What's the use-case for this kind of usage of IPFS? Is it just a generic content addressable store for local use? Like perhaps use it to compile and install packages that you symlink into your system path a bit like DIY nix?
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#18What I really want is a private, secure IPFS. I do want the network functionality, but I want it to exist only between my nodes. I know I can pin encrypted blobs, but I want something that handles this transparently. Is this possible somewhere?
Yeah. You'll need to run your own bootstrap node(s) and create a custom key for the swarm. IIRC that's about all it takes.
A bootstrap node is just any node that's (more or less) permanently reachable on the public Internet. Same as lots of tech like this, IPFS needs them for initial peer discovery and (in many cases, and I'm guessing in IPFS' case as well) NAT-breaking, plus as a route of last resort.
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#19What's the use-case for this kind of usage of IPFS? Is it just a generic content addressable store for local use? Like perhaps use it to compile and install packages that you symlink into your system path a bit like DIY nix?
Any application using content addressing can make use of at least some IPFS technologies. Sharing the contents of /nix/store on a local network or VPN is something I've been thinking about recently.
Re: Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS
#20What's the use-case for this kind of usage of IPFS? Is it just a generic content addressable store for local use? Like perhaps use it to compile and install packages that you symlink into your system path a bit like DIY nix?
I wrote a dedicated section in the documentation just for this, it can be pretty powerful: https://docs.nebulus.dev/#/?id=use-cases