Installation of IPFS on mirror

[mitra42]

See #11 (Meta-IPFS)

Notes from @parkan

• to use filestore just pass &nocopy=truew
• install from these binaries, needs a bit of platform detection, will look for an automagic script https://dist.ipfs.io/#go-ipfs
• filestore is an experimental feature so need to run ipfs config --json Experimental.FilestoreEnabled true once after installing & starting daemon

[mitra42]

Installation is done, (install.sh and ipfs_container_daemon.sh in the #ipfs branch) but still need to figure out how to autostart at same time as mirrorHttp.

[parkan]

might be good to use supervisord's groups for this: http://supervisord.org/configuration.html#group-x-section-settings

(will also help with auto-restarts etc)

[mitra42]

Yes - that's what we do on the production servers at the IA, there are two challenges - one addressed in ipfs/kubo#5983 was related to knowing whether the daemon was already started. I've now got the workaround I posted there, but its a bit of a kludge!

Second issue is that the platforms we want this to go on don't necessarily have supervisord so for example this isn't going to work on a mac. I think this is my problem, not IPFS's though it would be easier I think if the suggestion I made in 5983 happened.

[parkan]

it sounds like you want similar functionality (detach) to start-stop-daemon? honestly this is done very inconsistently across different servers and I wouldn't expect super nice behavior in userland without using a harness like supervisord (not really the right place to do daemon wrangling)

checking $? of ipfs swarm addrs is quite sound, it ensures that the startup got to the point of binding addresses, which is something that you want

[mitra42]

I agree with you, I'd rather see supervisord, but on some of these platforms they are seriously stripped down (such as the Rachel3+ wifi/storage appliance) and on others (e.g. Mac) its not supervisord and I haven't figured out (just not gotten to it yet) how to insert a daemon start on a Mac.

I've not used start-stop-daemon (more familiar with supervisord). I think having a supported function in IPFS would be good (e.g. appropriate flags to ipfs daemon rather than depending on the return code behaviour of ipfs swarm addrs) since my instinct is that that behavior of swarm addrs could change, which is what I'll use for now.