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Story: [ipfs-pack] Use a Single Pack to Track Many Files Across an OS
This is an edge case that we wanted to capture.
Given:
- I have many files spread across my OS
- I want one ipfs-pack with one manifest for all of my files
Option 1: put the ipfs-pack at the root of your filesystem and selectively add files (see Story: Selectively Add Files)
Option 2: Disable "internal paths only" mode on filestore. By default, filestore uses only "internal paths", meaning that it only allows you to reference files that are inside the IPFS pack's root directory. This is similar to git, whose repositories only allow you to add content that is inside the git repository's working directory.
"internal paths only" mode can be turned off but we strongly discourage it because moving the ipfs-pack would break all the paths, etc...