IPFS

Read-only today

Content-addressed storage read through a gateway.

Not yet tested live

What Mountit does with it

Mount
Read-only, and labelled read-only in the volume properties
Offline cache
Metadata cache and read-ahead — the same volume stack as every other service, minus the write-back a read-only volume has nothing to do with
Encryption layer
Available on this connection: client-side, rclone-compatible crypt over the data before it leaves your Mac
Editions
Both. Either edition mounts it through File Provider, so it appears in Finder — and, on Standard, in the Files app on iPad and Vision Pro

Limits

What IPFS cannot do, read from the app's own service_traits() — the same answer its connection picker shows before you connect, not a judgement typed onto this page.

Read-only
The volume is labelled read-only in its properties and writes are refused up front, rather than accepted by Finder and lost at the far end.

The engineering ledger does not list IPFS among the services run against a real server, so this page does not claim it was. That is read out of docs/BACKEND-COVERAGE.md in the app repository when this site is built — the build fails rather than let this page claim more than the ledger does.

The conformance record

Outside the corpus. The corpus is a read and write contract, and this service does not offer one — so a record could only report failures the service already declares. Every service’s standing, side by side.

IPFS questions

Can Mountit mount IPFS?

Yes — IPFS is one of the 38 services selectable in the app. Today it mounts read-only: the volume properties say so, and writes are refused rather than accepted and lost.

What we will not do is claim it works before it does: this page carries the ledger’s evidence level for IPFS, and it changes the day the evidence does.

Which edition do I need?

Either — this service is in both editions. The difference is the surrounding app, not the protocol: Mountit Pro is the unsandboxed build with the block protocols; Standard is the Mac App Store build, and on iPad and Vision Pro every service appears in the Files app. Both mount this service through File Provider.

Can I write to it?

No, and this page does not carry a flag someone set by hand: the backend declares no writer at all, and the site reads that from the source when it is built. If you want a writable IPFS, that is IPFS MFS — your own node’s mutable file system, listed separately for exactly this reason.