What is the purpose of “sealing pipeline” in IPFS and does SAFE have an equivalent way to handle these same issues:
And snap deals:
how are these snap deals handled in SAFE?
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Gemini:
IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) itself doesn’t have a concept of “sealing pipeline”. This term is actually used in Filecoin, a storage network built on top of IPFS. In Filecoin, the sealing pipeline refers to the process of preparing and storing data for retrieval later.
In 
the process involves, chunking, self-encryption, and network replication. Others here can give technical details of each better than I can.
Gemini:
Snap deals are a feature introduced in the Filecoin Network v15 OhSnap upgrade. They offer a way to streamline data storage on the network. Here’s how they work:
- Converting unused storage: Traditionally, storage providers allocate space beforehand (committed capacity sectors) but this space might not always be filled with data. Snap deals allow converting these unused sectors for storing actual data.
- Faster deal activation: Compared to the traditional method that involves resealing new sectors, snap deals significantly reduce the time to activate a deal. They achieve this by using a faster and less resource-intensive verification process.
doesn’t have or need such a process. Nodes are fixed in size and on average never fill up (those that do I expect will restart). So there will always be a degree of empty space on nodes. But doesn’t incentivize a lot of empty space, so the price paid for storage will drop dramatically if the excess space grows too large and vice versa. aims to automatically balance this to create an equilibrium.