Bazil status

[ly...@lyk.so]

Hi! I'm interested in this project and would like to use it for my own data, but
it's not clear to me how complete things are. The website says there is no
communication between peers yet, but it also seems to have not been updated
since 2015. The Github has been updated more recently than that, but still not
in the last few years.

As of 2023, how are things looking for Bazil, if you don't mind me asking?

Best wishes,
Lykso

[Tommi Virtanen]

Hi. I definitely need to update the website.

The design for Bazil ran into a funky edge case with version vectors
vs whole-subtree renames that I never gathered sufficient motivation
to think hard enough about to figure out an answer. It's complex
enough that I think the only reasonable next step would be to start
formally proving the sync algorithm.

Instead, I'm using https://github.com/bazil/plop all the time. I
haven't taken the time to document it sufficiently.. It's a much
simpler[1] immutable fixed-content store on top of S3-style object
stores, and avoids bazil's problem by delegating sync to git. As far
as git is concerned, it's just a bunch of symlinks, and any machine
with the right config, secrets, a clone of the git repo, and `plop
mount` running has seamless access to all the data added.

Looks like this:

```
$ date >myfile
$ plop add myfile
$ ls -l myfile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tv tv 70 Mar 4 16:37 myfile ->
/media/plop/demovolume/gzgoozwihdeqo851tcyqwntn9hdigh5h7gguchd5njkazbfwgqro
$ git add myfile
$ git commit -m 'blah blah'
```

[1]: Well, plop's crypto use is actually more advanced. If bazil
itself continues making progress one day, I'll port it to use plop as
a library. https://github.com/bazil/plop/blob/main/doc/crypto.dot

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