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by stoplying1 1331 days ago
Er, it's not that hard. Think about git repos, they have refs that point to a tip that you traverse. This would work the same way.

And in fact CID and chunking is what makes this possible...

Ipfs is in fact ripe and perfect for some of these sorts of things and I highly suspect we're going to see more innovation in this space, in applications that are actually pushing the envelope, now that there's a sold rust impl
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mdaniel 1331 days ago
> Er, it's not that hard.

You must be my boss; he loves to say that expression on zoom meetings where he's not responsible for the implementation

> refs that point to a tip that you traverse

Oh, ok, I guess you'll go to /ipns/wikipedia.org and just keep clicking links until you arrive at /wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System then. I think someone tried to prove the "6 degrees of Wikipedia," so yeah, how hard can it be?

I'm ashamed I got baited into even replying to this

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stoplying1 1330 days ago
The discussion was a way of replicating or distributing a filesystem structures, there's absolutely no requirement anywhere that individual files in that FS are directly addressable via IPNS. And yes, it's simple because there are countless implementations of chunking deduping CID systems. Basically none of which have that artificially created requirement. MANY of which ARE ALREADY BUILT ON IPFS AND IPNS and work exactly the way I describe.

Also, again, its like I mentioned it for a reason, see Git, where in fact, there isn't a nameable identity per-file, per-commit, and yet, there's a revisioned filesystem abstraction built on top! That works perfectly fine with pointers to CID content that points to other CID content.

It's almost exactly what is being discussed at hand.

Shame away buddy. Btw I've contributed code to more than one Content Addressable chunking deduping filesystem projects, because they're the future of file sync, and frankly now that Iroh is here, we're likely to start realizing these things in a "final" ish from.

Oh and the other commenter saying the exact same thing as me ;).

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