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Clarification on BTFS Pinning Behavior and Offline File Retrieval
7 months ago by Antonio Shelton
Hi everyone,
I'm currently experimenting with BTFS and had a quick question about file pinning and offline availability. If I pin a file to my local node and then go offline, will other nodes still be able to access that file if they previously fetched it and pinned it themselves?
Also, is there a way to check through the BTFS CLI or API which nodes (if any) are currently hosting or caching a particular file hash?
I read through the documentation on pinning and persistence, but I’m not sure how this works in practice for content availability across the network.
Thanks in advance!
—Alex golf hit
