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by espadrine 3585 days ago
Does it support encryption yet? Also, you'd have to auto-pin all your files, or risk losing them.

I think GlusterFS (battle-proof, but file-wise and assumes an administrator with access to everything) assumes or infinit.sh (robust ACL, but young, not open-source) better addresses those use-cases.
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diggan 3585 days ago
Encrypt the files before adding to IPFS and then decrypt after receiving them. Support for encryption will be built-in into IPFS in the future but for now, this solution works. There is a issue tracking this here: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/6

Also, when adding files yourself, those files become pinned by the default. Getting files won't pin automatically however. You have some more information about pinning here: https://github.com/ipfs/examples/tree/master/examples/pinnin...

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espadrine 3585 days ago
Ah, good to know. Still, you end up having to develop your own ACL system if you have multiple users (eg. family). Especially, shared directories are tricky.
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fizzbatter 3584 days ago
I was actually thinking of using a custom network, not truly IPFS.
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