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I'm not saying the physical file as fundamental computing construct is going anywhere. I'm saying software is getting to the point where the details of file st
by roc 17y ago
I'm not saying the physical file as fundamental computing construct is going anywhere.
I'm saying software is getting to the point where the details of file storage won't be relevant, even to producers of content. Whether your resource is one file, five files or five parts of five larger files will be as relevant 'tomorrow' as where the disk controller has put physical bits on a platter or memory cell 'today'.
The details still matters and always will; there are certainly good and bad ways to store those bits depending on the varying contexts. But no-one's thinking about it when they save a file; no-one's hand-tweaking each decision for individual performance or organizing it so you'll remember physically where you put it.