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by georgedegennaro 1509 days ago
'Because it's a very practical issue that can't be magicked away into the cloud.'

Maybe I'm not focusing on the 'into the cloud' part enough but is the first part of that statement true? Filesystems seem like a very practical issue: writing 1s and 0s in a (sometimes not even sequential) stream to a block device...my first glance at the issue it doesn't seem nearly a daunting challenge as CPU interoperability (multiple vendors, multiple instruction sets, somewhat overlapping, somewhat not) or networking, etc