kylemanna/metadisk repository overview

⁠MetaDisk

MetaDisk is a filehost web app, that allows anyone to upload files via a web interface or API. Files are hashed and uploaded to public file hosting. Using the hashes a node can look up the information of where that file was stored using the Datacoin⁠ blockchain. This makes a file uploaded to MetaDisk accessible through any node in the network.

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⁠Scope

This project depends on several other projects:

• accounts⁠ (Optional) - Library for managing bandwidth on shared MetaDisk nodes. Allows users to buy, earn, or receive their bandwidth.

• cloud-manager⁠ contains most of the file handling logic. It keeps track of all the uploaded files, keeps track of the files present in local cache, and handles database serialization.

• file-encryptor⁠ is an encryption package that implements convergent encryption using HMAC-SHA256 and AES128-CTR.

• metachains-dtc⁠ is a wrapper for the Datacoin client, using JSON RPC. It also contains a synchronization class, which allows one to synchronize data from and to the blockchain.

• plowshare-wrapper⁠ provides a python interface to upload and download files from popular file hosting sites. It is a python wrapper of the plowshare tool.

• web-core⁠ is the backend server that powers MetaDisk. It provides a JSON API web service, and the daemons to synchronize files to the cloud hosting services and to the blockchain.

MetaDisk, this project, provides a web interface to web-core, allowing you to upload files and check the server status regarding bandwidth, disk usage, and synchronization state.

⁠Installation

Check INSTALL.md⁠ for installation instructions. We use lunchbox⁠ for automated deployment.

⁠API

All API documentation is contained in MetaDisk's web-core⁠ repo.