This makes it possible to only start IPFS when needed. So a user’s
IPFS daemon only starts when they actually use it.
A few important warnings though:
- This probably shouldn’t be mixed with services.ipfs.autoMount
since you want /ipfs and /ipns aren’t activated like this
- ipfs.socket assumes that you are using ports 5001 and 8080 for the
API and gateway respectively. We could do some parsing to figure
out what is in apiAddress and gatewayAddress, but that’s kind of
difficult given the nonstandard address format.
- Apparently? this doesn’t work with the --api commands used in the tests.
Of course you can always start automatically with startWhenNeeded =
false, or just running ‘systemctl start ipfs.service’.
Tested with the following test (modified from tests/ipfs.nix):
import ./make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, ...} : {
name = "ipfs";
nodes.machine = { ... }: {
services.ipfs = {
enable = true;
startWhenNeeded = true;
};
};
testScript = ''
start_all()
machine.wait_until_succeeds("ipfs id")
ipfs_hash = machine.succeed("echo fnord | ipfs add | awk '{ print $2 }'")
machine.succeed(f"ipfs cat /ipfs/{ipfs_hash.strip()} | grep fnord")
'';
})
Fixes#90145
Update nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/ipfs.nix
Co-authored-by: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
Previously we had three services for different config flavors. This is
confusing because only one instance of IPFS can run on a host / port
combination at once. So move all into ipfs.service, which contains the
configuration specified in services.ipfs.
Also remove the env wrapper and just use systemd env configuration.
Since https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61321, local-fs.target is
part of sysinit.target again, meaning units without
DefaultDependencies=no will automatically depend on it, and the manual
set dependencies can be dropped.
This reverts commit 095fe5b43d.
Pointless renames considered harmful. All they do is force people to
spend extra work updating their configs for no benefit, and hindering
the ability to switch between unstable and stable versions of NixOS.
Like, what was the value of having the "nixos." there? I mean, by
definition anything in a NixOS module has something to do with NixOS...
It is no longer required to change the config your ipfs repo manually if you change
localDiscovery option in nixos configuration after ipfs repository initialization.
IPFS uses the environment variable IPFS_PATH to determine where to look for it's data, which wasn't set previously therefore ignoring the dataDir attribute
Offline mode: When adding a lot of data, start this service.
It will will not flood the DHT since it only exposes the API.
When you are done simply reverse the process.
