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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!

Related Projects

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