Storj

Storj is in the midst of a rearchitecture. Please stay tuned for our v3 whitepaper!

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Storj is a platform, token, and suite of decentralized applications that allows you to store data in a secure and decentralized manner. Your files are encrypted, shredded into little pieces and stored in a global decentralized network of computers. Luckily, we also support allowing you (and only you) to recover them!

To start developing

Install required packages

First of all, install git and golang.

Debian based (like Ubuntu)

apt-get install git golang
echo 'export GOPATH="$HOME/go"' >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:${GOPATH//://bin:}/bin"' >> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc

Mac OSX

brew install git go
if test -e $HOME/.bash_profile
then
	echo 'export GOPATH="$HOME/go"' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
	echo 'export PATH="$PATH:${GOPATH//://bin:}/bin"' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
	source $HOME/.bash_profile
else
	echo 'export GOPATH="$HOME/go"' >> $HOME/.profile
	echo 'export PATH="$PATH:${GOPATH//://bin:}/bin"' >> $HOME/.profile
	source $HOME/.profile
fi

Install storj

Clone the storj repository. You may want to clone your own fork and branch.

git clone https://github.com/storj/storj $GOPATH/src/storj.io/storj

Install all dependencies

go get can be used to install all dependencies. The execution will take some time. You can add -v if you want to get more feedback.

go get -t storj.io/storj/...

Fix error message cannot use "github.com/minio/cli" See https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/5974 for more details.

go get -t github.com/minio/cli && rm -rf $GOPATH/src/github.com/minio/minio/vendor/github.com/minio/cli
go get -t storj.io/storj/...

Run unit tests

go clean -testcache
go test storj.io/storj/...

You can execute only a single test package. For example: go test storj.io/storj/pkg/kademlia. Add -v for more informations about the executed unit tests.

Start the network

$ go install -v storj.io/storj/cmd/captplanet
$ captplanet setup
$ captplanet run

Configure AWS

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: insecure-dev-access-key
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: insecure-dev-secret-key
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: 
$ aws configure set default.s3.multipart_threshold 1TB  # until we support multipart

Do an upload

$ aws s3 --endpoint=http://localhost:7777/ cp large-file s3://bucket/large-file

Support

If you need support, start with the [troubleshooting guide], and work your way through the process that we've outlined.

That said, if you have any questions or suggestions please reach out to us on rocketchat or twitter.