Tahoe-LAFS IPFS Storage Driver

[daviddias]

These are notes from the discussion with Zooko and Daira

Tahoe-LAFS has a built in interface to support multiple storage drivers (yeei for common interfaces 🎉) and currently supports 4 storage providers (AWS S3, Azure, OpenStack and Google Cloud Store).

We can make an Storage Driver that uses IPFS files API for Tahoe-LAFS by creating a shim that follows the same interface, using the new files API available on IPFS 0.4.0, as we did to support the blob-store interface with ipfs-blob-store.

Current storage providers on Tahoe-LAFS (note that is only available on 2237.cloud-backend.s4.2 branch):

https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/tree/2237.cloud-backend-s4.2/src/allmydata/storage/backends/cloud

Storage Interface:

https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/blob/2237.cloud-backend-s4.2/src/allmydata/storage/backends/cloud/cloud_common.py#L54-L96

TODO:

• [ ] Update https://github.com/ipfs/python-ipfs-api to use files api (like https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/tree/feat/files-api)
• [ ] Make the storage driver ⚡️

[daviddias]

@amstocker would love to have your help on updating python-ipfs-api, 0.3.10 changed the format to ndjson for IPFS HTTP API responses and the files API is only available on 0.4.0 (which will be released 'soon')

[spacekitteh]

is there any work that has been done?