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> If you squint a little, a file system and a database are the same thing This is a tale and argument as old as time. It’s the squinting that is the problem. T
by rubiquity 3y ago
> If you squint a little, a file system and a database are the same thing
This is a tale and argument as old as time. It’s the squinting that is the problem. The devil is in the details.
- qubex 3y agoBeOS squinted so hard its native file system BeFS came out as an impressionist painting: the live metadata made it very database-like in behaviour with live search results (back in the mid nineties) but fairly lacklustre “actual file system” credentials.