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Prior Art & Related Projects

Prior Art

  • LiveJournal's photo hosting, my first experiment with content-addressable storage, which led to:

    • Brackup, my original content-addressable backup tool, but didn't store directories as the digest of their contents. (so backup manifests were huge)
  • Git, which exposed me to the idea of hashing directories, commits, etc. But git probably got it from Venti / Fossil:

    • Venti / Fossil, apparently pioneered the idea of recursive content-addressable file systems.
  • Monotone's "Certificates" are similar to Camli claims.

Probably more, though. Contributions to this list are welcome!

... and indeed, the community has pointed out several projects with some of the same goals: