Hi, Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
> All good, I had a look at the discussion and I'll study the patch a bit > more. > > Today I learnt that Nix also had tried the same thing some 2 years > back. And they ran into scalability issues. Maybe we should ask the > Nix folks. Does anyone know more details about this? I remember discussing it with lewo of NixOS at the R-B Summit. My recollection is that the prototype that had been developed was using IPFS in a brute-force fashion, something like directly storing nars and narinfos, as opposed to storing individual files from the store using “UnixFS” & co. I can no longer find the code that we looked at though, that was somewhere on GitHub. Note also that inserting files in IPFS takes quite a bit of CPU time and memory, so that also could take ‘guix publish’ busy. Ludo’.
