Block stats

[achingbrain]

Is there a way to get some stats about a block? Things like it's total size, how much of it is in the local blockstore (e.g. won't be fetched from the network), etc?

This is to implement the missing fields in ipfs.files.stat(path) - see ipfs/js-ipfs-mfs#13 for more.

[daviddias]

A block is just a block, seems you want to get stats on a Graph and info available on the IPFS Repo. Things like GraphSync will need this info too so perhaps @vmx already something in the works?

[vmx]

I don't have anything in the works.

[olizilla]

There is a more simple need for a way to ask the block service if it has a block locally or not. A UI could this use to choose if it should prepare the user for a wait while a block is searched for on the network vs fetching the content immedietly.