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This is a very unix philosophy right? Everything is a file?[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_i

• pjc50 2y ago
  Not quite - "everything is a blob" has very different concurrency semantics to "everything is a POSIX file". You can't write into the middle of a blob, for example. This makes certain use cases harder but the concurrency of blobs is much easier to reason about and get right. Personally I think you might actually need a DB to do the work of a DB, and you can't as easily build one on top of a blob store as on a block device. But I do think most distributed systems should use blob and/or DB and not the filesystem.