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I wish IPFS wasn't so wasteful with respect to storage. I tried pinning a 200mb PDF on IPFS and doing so ended up taking almost a gigabyte of disk space altoget

I wish IPFS wasn't so wasteful with respect to storage. I tried pinning a 200mb PDF on IPFS and doing so ended up taking almost a gigabyte of disk space altogether. It's also relatively slow. However its implementation of global deduplication is super cool – it means that I can host 5 pages and you can host 50, and any overlap between them means we can both help one another keep them available even if we don't know about one another beforehand. For a large-scale archival project, it might not be ideal. Maybe something based on erasure coding would be better. Do you know how LOCKSS compares?

diggan 2y ago
> I tried pinning a 200mb PDF on IPFS and doing so ended up taking almost a gigabyte of disk space altogether Was that any file in particular? I just tried it myself with a 257mb PDF (as reported by `ls -lrth`) and doesn't seem to add that much overhead: $ du -sh ~/.ipfs 84K /home/user/.ipfs $ ipfs add ~/Downloads/large\ PDF\ File.pdf added QmSvbEgCuRNZpkKyQm6nA5vz5RTHW1nxb6MJdR4cZUrnDj large PDF File.pdf 256.58 MiB / 256.58 MiB [============] 100.00% $ du -sh ~/.ipfs 264M /home/user/.ipfs