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I have a hard time seeing advantages of ditching files. I like this concept, but you can have it both ways (come up with a graphical notation that you can then
by breck 7y ago
I have a hard time seeing advantages of ditching files. I like this concept, but you can have it both ways (come up with a graphical notation that you can then manipulate with graph like tools), but at the end of the day you need a source of truth, and the file metaphor (a named region of code) is hard to beat (impossible to beat?). Even databases store things as files.
- gnode 7y agoFile systems are just one approach to storage. Databases can use file systems, block devices, or object-based storage (such as distributed storage systems, e.g. Ceph, Amazon S3). Traditional file systems are, by themselves, inadequate for many use case, as they don't provide things like versioning. The strength of the file system, is that much tooling already exists for it.