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Reported MFS size can be bigger than the size of repo

See original GitHub issue

cc https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-webui/issues/1042, https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-webui/issues/629

MFS can store files in “lazy” fashion, which means root is added to MFS, but children are fetched lazily, on first use.

Example

English wikipedia mirror is ~650 GB. Lazy pointer to it can be added to MFS instantly via:

$ ipfs files cp /ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco /en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org

Problem

This feature of MFS creates a problem in WebUI, it looks like “Files” take more space than “entire repo”:

This will become a problem when we start taking advantage of this lazy mode in website cohosting (discussed in https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/cohosting/issues/6)

Solution?

We need to change the labels, make them more informative. Below is a quick mock that illustrates what additional information needs to be conveyed. The problem is that it does not look good, and we need to clean this up somehow.

Thoughts?

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

hsn10commented, Mar 31, 2021

I dont think this is a bug. It maybe confusing and need some UI adjust but behavior is correct.

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lidelcommented, Oct 14, 2019

Yup, dropping all is better 👍 I also would go with C, just for clarity’s sake: B introduces problem of having 2019-10-15--01-20-40 and 2019-10-15--01-20-59 pretty close to each other.

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