Project Gutenberg

[davidar]

The first thing I mirrored to IPFS was a small subset of Project Gutenberg, so I'm definitely interested in getting the whole thing into IPFS, as both @rht (#14) and @simonv3 (https://github.com/simonv3/ipfs-gutenberg) have suggested.

Making an issue to coordinate this.

[rht]

This is just an rsync away, really. Currently running it on pollux.

[davidar]

@rht is there enough free disk space on Pollux?

[rht]

(didn't check)

[rht]

https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Mirroring_How-To says it is at least 650 GB (could have been doubled). Pollux has 13 GB left.

But anyway, the mirroring is a one-liner.

[simonv3]

@rht Yeah, what makes this difficult is the amount of disk space - I don't think many people have that amount of space lying around for this.

It's been suggested by some people to shard the collection and just make sure people hosting those bits keep their things in sync independently. There's also been talk about this tool: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/58

[simonv3]

We could also just pitch in x amount for an Amazon instance (or some other host) of that amount, and just pay that?

Or I could see if I can figure out my raspberry pi, and attach a TB to it.

[rht]

Hmm, rsync doesn't have seek so at least the first 'download -> hash' needs the TB storage to contain it.

Either

1. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/reduced-redundancy/ ~$24/month.
2. http://www.amazon.com/Green-1TB-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B006GDVREI ~$50 (can be repurposed for other archivals, once the PG hash has been sharded).

For now, to do partial backup, ipfs object get can be used for each of the nodelinks that form parts of the root hash.

[rht]

(and both storage came from amazon)

[rht]

ipfs check-redundancy $hash would be useful.

[davidar]

@jbenet @lgierth SEND MORE DISKS...

Also see ipfs/infrastructure#89

[davidar]

ipfs check-redundancy $hash would be useful.

@rht Yeah, what I really want to do is have a "click to pin" button on the archive homepage, people select how much storage they want to donate, and the tool randomly selects an appropriate subset of the least-redundant blocks and pins them to the local daemon.

CC: @whyrusleeping

Edit: see ipfs/notes#54

[whyrusleeping]

that would be cool. could have our service enumerate providers for each block under a given archive root, then assign blocks with the least number of providers to the next person who requests.

[rht]

Should be normalized based on the blocks demand curve.

[jbenet]

• ipfs-cluster - https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/58

[jbenet]

We can get more storage nodes, if necessary