Whenever I add a new file to IPFS, are files duplicated? In other words, if I want to share a 1GB file, would I have to host 2GB of data (my original file + a copy for IPFS)?

Does "ipfs add" duplicate content?

lidel March 24, 2017, 6:26pm 6

This seems to be possible now:

The filestore code has been merged, and will be shipped in 0.4.7

For some notes and usage instructions, see this comment: #3397 (comment):

How to enable

Modify your ipfs config:

ipfs config --json Experimental.FilestoreEnabled true

And then pass the --nocopy flag when running ipfs add

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