From 23264b9b52fc710793e503d8b961891e2f73d095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Maciek \"mab122\" Bator" Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:53:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: drop reference to the rejected seed-hosted-server design attempt --- LFS-IPFS.md | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/LFS-IPFS.md b/LFS-IPFS.md index 342ef1ea..dfd5e158 100644 --- a/LFS-IPFS.md +++ b/LFS-IPFS.md @@ -15,11 +15,8 @@ separates a small, mutable pointer file (which Radicle replicates exactly as it other git object) from immutable large-file content addressed by hash — which is precisely what IPFS is good at. This fork only uses IPFS for that second part. -A seed-hosted HTTP LFS server was considered and prototyped first, but rejected: it would have -recreated a single point of failure, and Radicle's node/address book has no existing mechanism -to advertise a seed's HTTP endpoint (only P2P gossip addresses), so real seed discovery would -have needed new protocol work outside this fork's scope. Instead, every peer uses their own -local IPFS node, and the file-CID mapping travels with the repository itself. +There's no server anywhere in this design: every peer uses their own local IPFS node, and the +file-CID mapping travels with the repository itself, avoiding a single point of failure. ## How it works