The user needs to be paying for the storage and the bandwidth they're reserving

[sameh-farouk]

The user needs to be paying for the storage and the bandwidth they're reserving

see :
threefoldtech/tfchain#445

This is a subtask of :
#3

[sameh-farouk]

Status:

• The storage can be calculated per CID
• bandwidth consumed per CID (storing/retrieving) can be tracked (This one is a bit challenging, still researching best way to implement it)

[sameh-farouk]

Update:
After researching this, here is a list of IPFS issues and discussions regarding the bandwidth tracking at CID level:

• https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/how-to-get-accurately-the-bandwidth-consumption-download-upload-per-cid/15457
• IPFS Bandwidth Metrics and Logging enhancements ipfs/roadmap#14

to sum up the info from the above links:

• With IPFS, out of the box, it's quite difficult to see what kind of usage / traffic is going through our nodes on a per root CID basis. this not supported via either the client or the API.

• We can come up with hacky solutions given the info i researched, but there is no optimal solution yet provided by IPFS. these solution would include:

  • monitoring and parsing the logs
  • through a go-ipfs plugin and bitswap

• The best efforts made yet to come over this limitation was from pinata side, they help develop a plugin that can used to track estimated bandwidth on a per block basis.

• https://gitcoin.co/issue/23631

• https://github.com/tzdybal/cidtrack

I provided the link above but need to try it and check if it could be any useful. I think this was the initial implementation and it developed further privately for production use in pinata. could be outdated as well.

[sameh-farouk]

Update:
I gave the plugin mentioned above a try, but as expected it is outdated and I wasn't able to get past the building process. I need some direction here, should we implement our own solution, or try to update this plugin code? also, we could bill users based on the actual data size and estimate the bandwidth as there is no official support yet in IPFS for measuring the bandwidth per user data.