Improve the Filestore document
Fix for the #5746. Switch to Filestore need to restart the ipfs node. License: MIT Signed-off-by: Bamvor Zhang <jian.zhang@ipfsbit.com>
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@@ -183,7 +183,10 @@ Modify your ipfs config:
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ipfs config --json Experimental.FilestoreEnabled true
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-And then pass the `--nocopy` flag when running `ipfs add`
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+Then restart your IPFS node to reload your config.
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+Finally, when adding files with ipfs add, pass the --nocopy flag to use the
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+filestore instead of copying the files into your local IPFS repo.
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### Road to being a real feature
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- [ ] Needs more people to use and report on how well it works.