README.md

go-ds-s3-plugin

Installation

On a brand new instance:

1. Copy the binary go-ds-s3-plugin to ~/.ipfs/plugins.
2. Run ipfs init
3. Update the datastore configuration in .ipfs/config as explained below. This does not happen automatically.
4. Start Kubo (ipfs daemon). The plugin should be loaded automatically and the S3 backend should be used.

Configuration

The config file should include the following. This must be edited manually after initializing Kubo:

{
  "Datastore": {
  ...

    "Spec": {
      "mounts": [
        {
          "child": {
            "type": "s3ds",
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "bucket": "$bucketname",
            "rootDirectory": "$bucketsubdirectory",
            "accessKey": "",
            "secretKey": "",
            "keyTransform": "$keytransformmethod"
          },
          "mountpoint": "/blocks",
          "prefix": "s3.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        },

If the access and secret key are blank they will be loaded from the usual ~/.aws/. If you are on another S3 compatible provider, e.g. Linode, then your config should be:

{
  "Datastore": {
  ...

    "Spec": {
      "mounts": [
        {
          "child": {
            "type": "s3ds",
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "bucket": "$bucketname",
            "rootDirectory": "$bucketsubdirectory",
            "regionEndpoint": "us-east-1.linodeobjects.com",
            "accessKey": "",
            "secretKey": "",
            "keyTransform": "$keytransformmethod"
          },
          "mountpoint": "/blocks",
          "prefix": "s3.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        },

If you are configuring a brand new ipfs instance without any data, you can overwrite the datastore_spec file with:

{"mounts":[{"bucket":"$bucketname","mountpoint":"/blocks","region":"us-east-1","rootDirectory":"$bucketsubdirectory"},{"mountpoint":"/","path":"datastore","type":"levelds"}],"type":"mount"}

Otherwise, you need to do a datastore migration.