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Right, and we saw some examples of Sqlite+torrent in the past; those databases could be made editable more easily (although it would be nice to de-duplicate unchanged parts, not sure if sqlite DBs can be chunked).

Not necessarily sqlite, that said. It might be useful for openstreetmap tiles/db, or indeed repositories like library genesis, wikidata/wikipedia dumps, etc.




Oh that’s an interesting idea. I saw someone built SQLite over HTTP with the Range header: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...

So presumably in a similar manner as https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs you could map SQLite pages to leaf torrents too and get the chunking you are looking for.




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