Matt Ober

@lidel Yes, you're correct with your understanding of things. Our biggest requirement for anything that we ingest is that we need to be able to calculate the size of it....

From reading through this thread, it seems like the original desire here was to allow users an easier way to directly upload their NFT data to a pinning service in...

For more context: The code I'm using looks like: ``` const results = await packToFs({ input: contentFilePath, output: `${destinationFolder}/data.car`, blockstore: new FsBlockStore(), wrapWithDirectory: false, maxChildrenPerNode: 1024, maxChunkSize: 262144 }); ```...

@Stebalien what are the functionality impacts of not having this PR + the additional fixes you mentioned merged in?

@alanshaw What's all needed for the --nocopy functionality to get fully implemented? I'd really love to see this functionality as part of this library, but I imagine there's a few...

From conversations with @whyrusleeping , it's my understanding that the next-to-last/2 method (and other methods of filesystem sharding) were originally implemented in order to better scale linux based filesystems. @achingbrain...

@magik6k based on the resulting close of the issue you linked, it seems like badger does eventually reclaim the space. Were you able to notice any eventual space reclamation on...

@vasa-develop i'm currently using the v0.11.0-rc6 of cluster

From looking at https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/issues/763 it appears that this is still an "issue" however I was specifically passing in a CID when doing this, so that might be the "workaround" that...

@hsanjuan @vasa-develop The use case is for nodeJS environments, but upon further research it appears that I can just use the IPFS proxy functionality of IPFS-cluster to accomplish this. As...