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I think you maybe underestimate the utility and reliability of flat text files on a filesystem. If you don’t trust a filesystem, you can’t trust anything that
by naikrovek 3y ago
I think you maybe underestimate the utility and reliability of flat text files on a filesystem.
If you don’t trust a filesystem, you can’t trust anything that uses one.
Flat files don’t scale past a certain point, but that point is way higher than most believe it is.
- o11c 3y agoSpecifically, flat files scale very far if there are no concurrent partial updates. And "fork off a new process just to do the save" helps move that point farther away.