It seems when a url option is passed, a .superblock.txt file must be provided at the url, listing the available files. Creating this file is not always possible, and when it is missing, the _cache.stat() check in readFile at https://github.com/isomorphic-git/lightning-fs/blob/master/src/PromisifiedFS.js#L150 throws an error, preventing the reading of any remote files.
It might be nice if there were a way to specify that files are present when the superblock file is not, or when it is missing content. A method like fs.backFile() maybe that would add an entry to the cache.
Orthogonally, that readFile line could be skipped when there is no superblock file, maybe a HEAD request performed instead.
fuzzyTew
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4 years ago
It seems when a
urloption is passed, a .superblock.txt file must be provided at the url, listing the available files. Creating this file is not always possible, and when it is missing, the_cache.stat()check in readFile at https://github.com/isomorphic-git/lightning-fs/blob/master/src/PromisifiedFS.js#L150 throws an error, preventing the reading of any remote files.It might be nice if there were a way to specify that files are present when the superblock file is not, or when it is missing content. A method like
fs.backFile()maybe that would add an entry to the cache.Orthogonally, that readFile line could be skipped when there is no superblock file, maybe a HEAD request performed instead.