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Content-addressable storage

Content-addressable storage (CAS), also referred to as content-addressed storage or fixed-content storage, is a way to store information so it can be retrieved based on its content, not its name or location. It has been used for high-speed storage and retrieval of fixed content, such as documents stored for compliance with government…

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Content-addressable storage

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Content-addressable storage

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related to Open-source · 33
Content-addressable storage → API, Arvados Keep, Bazel, Bell Labs, CAS, Cassette, Docker Inc, Git, Infinit, Internet, InterPlanetary File System, IPFS, Irmin, It, Lennart Poettering, Linux, NET, Nix, OCaml, One

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cas storage content file systems data files system directory key hash location used document distributed content-addressable store one address physical

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BitTorrentinstance ofan injunction against Napster prompted the independent development of file-sharing services0.80text
which could not be centrally shut downinstance ofan injunction against Napster prompted the independent development of file-sharing services0.80text
Gitinstance ofthe growth of the open-source software movement in the 2000s led to the rapid proliferation of CAS-based services0.80text
a version control system that uses numerous cryptographic functions such as Merkle trees to enforce data integrity between usersinstance ofthe growth of the open-source software movement in the 2000s led to the rapid proliferation of CAS-based services0.80text
allow for multiple versions of files with minimal diskinstance ofthe growth of the open-source software movement in the 2000s led to the rapid proliferation of CAS-based services0.80text
network usageinstance ofthe growth of the open-source software movement in the 2000s led to the rapid proliferation of CAS-based services0.80text
key servers.The rise of mobile computinginstance ofindividual users of public-key cryptography used CAS to store their public keys on systems0.80text
high capacity mobile broadband networks in the 2010sinstance ofindividual users of public-key cryptography used CAS to store their public keys on systems0.80text
coupled with increasing reliance on web applications for everyday computing tasksinstance ofindividual users of public-key cryptography used CAS to store their public keys on systems0.80text
strained the existing location-addressed clientinstance ofindividual users of public-key cryptography used CAS to store their public keys on systems0.80text
being able to support not only WORM disk but WORM tapeinstance ofdesign which provides some additional flexibility0.80text
the migration of data from WORM disk to WORM tapeinstance ofdesign which provides some additional flexibility0.80text

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