There are currently at least 3 blockchain based distributed file systems. IPFS (Inter-Planetary File System), FileCoin, and Storj. I’ll have to read through the white papers and technical specs. And really need to determine if there are any specific needs we would need to address in regards to the various data types we’d be storing, or features that would be needed for the various needs of vintage computer software and documentation storage. On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:04 PM Joseph Oprysko <joprysko1@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, unlike “torrents” which utilizes distributed files, it’s not really a file system. Because the users each determines which files they are hosting at any one time. It’s possible that some of the torrent code could be used for file system management, rather than building everything from scratch.
There’s actually one crypto-currency Network I just read about briefly, that seems to work similar to what I’m thinking, it’s possible that it could be used as well, but I’d need to look into it a bit more. If it’s something that could work, we may have an almost pre-built solution.
Evan, I’ll check with Jason at Archive.org, they may be interested in pursuing this as well. I’ve communicated with him before in regards to some other things, which at the time they said they were not going to pursue, but now look at all of the emulated machines when going through their software library. (Shrug)
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:24 AM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Sounds like a torrent to me...
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
If there’s interest in pursuing a project like this, email me off list,
and
we’ll coordinate and communicate on either a different email list or some other platform.
I suggest talking to Jason Scott before doing anything. Internet Archive may be several steps ahead.
-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?