The "default file" for a wallet
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Right now if I store the files on sia network, I still must care about properly storing and backing up .sia files to be able to retrieve my files back. If every wallet would've had a "default file" that can be accessed using only the wallet seed, this information from .sia files could've been also stored on sia network. How much would it cost for a network to implement such feature? What do you think about this idea at all?
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I think the idea should eventually be implemented in one way or another, but I'm not sure how it could work with just the seed, because you need some way to know which hosts are storing the file, and that's part of what a .sia contains.
However, it is already possible (of course) to zip all your .sia files together and upload them to the Sia network, and then keep a single .sia file that refers to that zip... This way, at least, there will only be one .sia file to back up.
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because you need some way to know which hosts are storing the file
That information obviously could only go to the blockchain, that's why I'm asking how much would it cost for a network.
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Is that so obvious? Storing it on the blockchain sounds like a bad idea to me.
Why wouldn't it be possible in principle to send a broadcast (flood) query to the network asking something like "who among you has data matching the following signature?"?
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You're right. This might be also a possible scenario.