gc send async

[wmaslonek]

When trying to use the GC API within an async task, I encountered a compilation error because the future is not Send.
Some internal components of the GC streams use non-Send types, such as Rc<Cell<...>>, internally within the GC streams, making it impossible to use the GC APIs in async Send contexts.
This prevents the direct use of the GC API in any multithreaded async context that requires Send bounds, which is very common.

[dignifiedquire]

What GC api are you talking about? are you referring to iroh-blobs?

[wmaslonek]

I was analyzing the event streams related to the underlying blob store, specifically iroh_bytes::store::GcMarkEvent and iroh_bytes::store::GcSweepEvent. My goal is to perform a periodic garbage collection on the node’s repository. Since I couldn’t find a method in the main iroh crate, I started looking into the other crates and found these event streams in iroh-bytes.

[dignifiedquire]

cc @rklaehn

[b5]

I’m going to move this to n0-computer/iroh-blobs