How to create an IPFS compatible multihash

Question

I\'m trying to create an IPFS compatible mutihash but it is not matching. I am asking here because I have not yet found an example that takes this from hashing to the end r

Answer 1

A file in IPFS is 'transformed' into a Unixfs file, which is a representation of files in a DAG, in your example, you are hashing directly your multihash.txt with sha2-256, but what happens inside IPFS is:

• file gets chunked into 256KiB pieces
• each chunk goes into a DAG node inside a Unixfs protobuf https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-unixfs
• a dag is created with links to all the chunks.