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I love Iroh but it doesn't quite work the same as IPFS if I understand correctly.
by CommanderData 23d ago
I love Iroh but it doesn't quite work the same as IPFS if I understand correctly.
- knowaveragejoe 23d agoIt doesn't, it's a lower level primitive. But things like IPFS can be built on top of it.
- 2color 23d agoThe way I would put is as: Iroh + iroh-blobs == libp2p + UnixFS + Bitswap, and the latter three are some of the critical components that have defined most IPFS implementations.
- rklaehn 23d agoIf you want to compare iroh with something out of the IPFS world, iroh is basically "what if you build libp2p on multipath QUIC". If you want full ipfs functionality, we have a number of protocols you can combine: blobs https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-blobs https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-blobs and gossip https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-gossip https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-gossip . There is one thing we do not have yet - global content discovery. The reason for this is that so far we have not found a way to do it in a way that just works. It is a very hard problem, but I hope we can come up with a solution so we can cover the use cases that initially got me excited about IPFS many years ago.
- CommanderData 19d agoGlobal content discovery really is the missing piece that meshes IPFS together.