On 15 August 2018 at 13:57, Wout Mertens <wout.mert...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For the interested: > > In NixOS (http://nixos.org), a very interesting Linux distribution, the > entire OS (libraries, binaries, shared files, up to and including > configuration files) is composed out of "build products" that are addressed > by "input hash". > > The input hash is calculated on everything that is used to generate the > build product from scratch. For a text file, this is simply the content > hash of the text. For a binary, it is the input hash of the compiler, > libraries, build scripts, and all the build flags, plus the content hash of > the source, all hashed together. > > A build product (whether file or directory) is stored in /nix/store/<input > hash>-human-readable-name. > It's not clear whether you're involved in NixOS development or just a user, but you might be interested in ipfs: https://ipfs.io/ It's marketed as an http competitor but if I understand correctly it's basically a distributed hash-addressed data store. They provide fairly regular file-system semantics on top of that I believe, but probably NixOS would be happy with a simpler VFS which exposes the hashes themselves. See also venti, because how can you talk about hash-addressed storage without a reference to plan 9 ;) -Rowan > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
