Simon Forman on Nostr: Filesystems are an anachronism. We came to accept them as just the way things are, ...
Filesystems are an anachronism. We came to accept them as just the way things are, but they are not intrinsic to computing, they're an implemented abstraction, and we can implement and use other abstractions.
If you were to design a greenfield persistent storage abstraction what would it be like?
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