MFS API Feedback

[whyrusleeping]

If you have any feedback, comments, questions, or concerns about the mfs api. This is the place for it.

[Kubuxu]

It would be awesome to have flags for ipfs files stat to display only hash of directory. Currently I use head -1 for this purpose.

[MasterJames]

Where do I find the IPFS MFS API?

[Kubuxu]

It is ipfs files subcommands.

[MasterJames]

Okay so mfs is only mutable through ipns.
I was looking for a mutable solution within ipfs that ideally works on the file system. What might you suggest? The data store or objects? Sorry it's a nub question but I have hunted around without much success ipns is workable but it would be nice to build a mutable file system on top of ipfs.
It's just I thought the mfs would be mutable but I guess not. ? Maybe I'll check back in when Beta?

[notslang]

It would be nice if we got rid of all the ipfs files subcommands and just mounted the MFS via FUSE so we can use the standard GNU fs utilities.

[Powersource]

What does MFS stand for? I couldn't find anything reasonable.

[Powersource]

I'm guessing it stands for Mutable file system. Is there anything longer than snippets written about it?

[zignig]

It would be nice if patch append-data and set-data were available from the files interface. Setting meta data on files in MFS would be useful.

[MasterJames]

Yes mutable file system it has commands like
ipfs mfs ls
see ipfs/specs#98

[djdv]

Going forward, feedback for the ipfs files command should be individual issues in this repo (ipfs/go-ipfs).
Concerns about the MFS api itself should go in ipfs/go-mfs.
And general questions should see https://docs.ipfs.io/#community