let’s say i am having a single private ipfs node and I connect another private node, how can I share the MFS amongst the nodes

The simple solution is this: ipfs files stat --hash / gives you a cid if you want to populate the mfs of a remote node you then need to execute ipfs files cp /ipfs/<cid> / on that remote node using the cid you received from the stat command if you want to do it in realtime you need to either r…

Pin will endlessly attempt to fetch files that ere not available localy unless you specify a timeout, once the timeout expires it will then throw an error

@phillmac Are you talking about a scenario where the MFS files are no longer available on the network (remote machines), and so the PIN fails due to not being able to get the data? …or are you saying the PIN fails even though the data being pinned WAS available on the network? IMO pinning should al…

By default pin will try indefinitly to search for a node with the data, without giving up. Quite often I’ve tried to pin some data thats already been deleted and no longer available in the swarm at all. In that case the pin job will be ‘stuck’ forever waiting for the data to become available. Yo…

What you’re saying about timeouts and unreachable (un-findable) data sounds fine. That makes sense. However the issue at hand here is that apparently if you pin a large MFS file structure root folder, the “pin” is guaranteed to always NOT pin the data unless all the files just happen to have alread…

[image] wclayf: However the issue at hand here is that apparently if you pin a large MFS file structure root folder, the “pin” is guaranteed to always NOT pin the data unless all the files just happen to have already been copied to the local machine…even if the files ARE reachable on the remote …

Thanks @hector . So my original answer above where said this: “I think you can just pin the root and you’re done. Your node you pin it on will go get the data and keep it I think.” was actually correct then? We can use ‘PIN’ to get MFS files from foreign servers, even without using a copy command? …

this thread a classic example of why you guys having issues getting the contributors. I got lost, TBH. Couldn’t you ( core devs ) just answer it nicely in one post or video or something. So WHAT is the solution?

The upshot here is that the ipfs files cp only ever copies the directory structure, not the underlying file data. So if the directory structure is available, it’ll copy that only and then immediately return. ipfs pin add <cid> also works only with things that resolve to a cid, so multiaddrs that st…

I can state with near certainty that this phrase: "ipfs files cp only ever copies the directory structure, not the underlying file data" …is something that 99% of people are going to misunderstand unless it’s explicitly stated in the docs. I’m glad this information (assuming it’s correct) has fina…

To hopefully add more clarification the following 6 steps should be the high level algorithm to “synchronize” two arbitrary MFS directory structures: To synchronize SRC folder structure to DST folder structure (making DST folder be a perfect match of SRC), where DST is on your local gateway where y…

Is it possible to share the MFS from one node to another

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phillmac March 21, 2021, 9:13pm 28

The easest way by far is to use ipfs-desktop or the webui to manage the mfs.

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Is it possible to share the MFS from one node to another

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