I Like Big Blocks And I Cannot Slice

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Copying some notes from a discussion with @ianconsolata (Filecoin Foundation) here:

  • Are there good intro to DASL or migrating to DASL guides I can send to the Singularity PM so we can make sure Singularity is packing CARs in a DASL compatible way?
  • We should also chat about inline prepared CARs: Inline Preparation | Singularity They were useful for IA, because they allow pointing to the existing data on disk rather than duplicating storage with a full copy of the data in a car file. But I suspect that approach is probably incompatible with the current DASL approach to CARs.

@mosh:

  • I think DASL (and IPFS) are agnostic about how the CARs are generated. But in practice, the current CAR generation tools are impractical to use for large files/datasets because they require 2x storage to generate?

@robin:

  • Right — it’s a tooling issue, we could definitely help have better tooling.
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