yar

This tries to integrate several concepts I encountered over the last few years.

Components

• A common hash interface
• A per-object format (with three object types)
• An archive/export format
• An on-disk format
• A TCP API

Related conceptual resources

• tag based file organization https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies
• yzix for content-addressed stuff https://github.com/YZITE/yzix

TODO

• The binary parsers using scroll are a bit awkward to use, and integrating properly with the bytes crate might make it possible to omit a few copies, but although bytes at first glance is easier to use, implementing zero-copy schemes using it, and when interacting with file I/O makes it complicated again. So, figure out how to improve that.