• ipfs is installed on all systems

• local filesystem contains a cached version of the files on the local

• a datastructure on the local is maintained to map each filepath to:

  • an IPFS location
  • metadata on the file?

• accomplish this with git:

• an .ipfs_cache/{filename} file is maintained for each file on the filesystem

• the .ipfs_cache/ files are plain-text files which are used to keep the local cache updated

• a cronjob

  • checks for changes on the filesystem

• a cronjob crawls file systems and updates the git changelog

wait... can I we just use ipfs + ipns directly using kubo? I tried this before. I need to try again to find out.

IPFS also has associated micro grants. ref2.

There are other newer projects with more focus on computing

• https://docs.bacalhau.org/
• https://github.com/labdao/plex

https://docs.bacalhau.org/