Ipfs is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines good ideas from Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the Web. It is like a single bittorrent swarm, exchanging git objects. IPFS provides an interface as simple as the HTTP web, but with permanence built in. You can also mount the world at /ipfs.
For more info see: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
Please put all issues regarding IPFS design in the ipfs repo issues. Please put all issues regarding go IPFS implementation in this repo.
The canonical download instructions for IPFS are over at: http://ipfs.io/docs/install
We use gobuilder.me, a great service that automatically builds a release on every commit.
You can see the latest builds for your platform at these links:
release- the last released version <-- recommendedmaster- development, stable
From there:
- click "Download" on the build for your platform
- open/extract the archive
- move
ipfsto your path (install.shcan do it for you)
First, you'll need go. If you don't have it: Download Go 1.5.1+.
You'll need to add Go's bin directories to your $PATH environment variable e.g., by adding these lines to your /etc/profile (for a system-wide installation) or $HOME/.profile:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
(If you run into trouble, see the Go install instructions)
Then simply:
go get -u github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/cmd/ipfs
NOTES:
gitis required in order forgo getto fetch all dependencies.- Package managers often contain out-of-date
golangpackages. Compilation from source is recommended. - If you are interested in development, please install the development dependencies as well.
- WARNING: older versions of OSX FUSE (for Mac OS X) can cause kernel panics when mounting! We strongly recommend you use the latest version of OSX FUSE. (See ipfs#177)
- For more details on setting up FUSE (so that you can mount the filesystem), see the docs folder
- Shell command completion is available in
misc/completion/ipfs-completion.bash. Read docs/command-completion.md to learn how to install it. - See the init examples for how to connect IPFS to systemd or whatever init system your distro uses.
USAGE:
ipfs - global p2p merkle-dag filesystem
ipfs [<flags>] <command> [<arg>] ...
BASIC COMMANDS
init Initialize ipfs local configuration
add <path> Add an object to ipfs
cat <ref> Show ipfs object data
get <ref> Download ipfs objects
ls <ref> List links from an object
refs <ref> List hashes of links from an object
DATA STRUCTURE COMMANDS
block Interact with raw blocks in the datastore
object Interact with raw dag nodes
file Interact with Unix filesystem objects
ADVANCED COMMANDS
daemon Start a long-running daemon process
mount Mount an ipfs read-only mountpoint
resolve Resolve any type of name
name Publish or resolve IPNS names
dns Resolve DNS links
pin Pin objects to local storage
repo gc Garbage collect unpinned objects
NETWORK COMMANDS
id Show info about ipfs peers
bootstrap Add or remove bootstrap peers
swarm Manage connections to the p2p network
dht Query the dht for values or peers
ping Measure the latency of a connection
diag Print diagnostics
TOOL COMMANDS
config Manage configuration
version Show ipfs version information
update Download and apply go-ipfs updates
commands List all available commands
Use 'ipfs <command> --help' to learn more about each command.
See also: http://ipfs.io/docs/getting-started/
To start using ipfs, you must first initialize ipfs's config files on your
system, this is done with ipfs init. See ipfs init --help for information on
the optional arguments it takes. After initialization is complete, you can use
ipfs mount, ipfs add and any of the other commands to explore!
Basic proof of 'ipfs working' locally:
echo "hello world" > hello
ipfs add hello
# This should output a hash string that looks something like:
# QmT78zSuBmuS4z925WZfrqQ1qHaJ56DQaTfyMUF7F8ff5o
ipfs cat <that hash>
An ipfs docker image is hosted at hub.docker.com/r/jbenet/go-ipfs.
To make files visible inside the container you need to mount a host directory
with the -v option to docker. Choose a directory that you want to use to
import/export files from ipfs. You should also choose a directory to store
ipfs files that will persist when you restart the container.
export ipfs_staging=</absolute/path/to/somewhere/>
export ipfs_data=</absolute/path/to/somewhere_else/>
Make sure docker can access these folders:
sudo chmod -R 777 /absolute/path/to/somewhere/
sudo chmod -R 777 /absolute/path/to/somewhere_else/
Start a container running ipfs and expose ports 4001, 5001 and 8080:
docker run -d --name ipfs_host -v $ipfs_staging:/export -v $ipfs_data:/data/ipfs -p 8080:8080 -p 4001:4001 -p 5001:5001 jbenet/go-ipfs:latest
Watch the ipfs log:
docker logs -f ipfs_host
Wait for ipfs to start. ipfs is running when you see:
Gateway (readonly) server
listening on /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/8080
(you can now stop watching the log)
Run ipfs commands:
docker exec ipfs_host ipfs <args...>
For example: connect to peers
docker exec ipfs_host ipfs swarm peers
Add files:
cp -r <something> $ipfs_staging
docker exec ipfs_host ipfs add -r /export/<something>
Stop the running container:
docker stop ipfs_host
Since docker is running in the boot2docker VM, you need to forward relevant ports from the VM to your host for ipfs act normally. This is accomplished with the following command:
boot2docker ssh -L 5001:localhost:5001 -L 4001:localhost:4001 -L 8080:localhost:8080 -fN
If you have previously installed ipfs before and you are running into
problems getting a newer version to work, try deleting (or backing up somewhere
else) your ipfs config directory (~/.ipfs by default) and rerunning ipfs init.
This will reinitialize the config file to its defaults and clear out the local
datastore of any bad entries.
For any other problems, check the issues list and if you dont see your problem there, either come talk to us on irc (freenode #ipfs) or file an issue of your own!
Please see Contribute.md!
An IPFS alpha version has been released in February 2015. Things left to be done are all marked as Issues
If you make changes to the protocol buffers, you will need to install the protoc compiler.
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