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by rmatt2000 1426 days ago
A few years ago, I designed an incredibly fast write-only file system, but for some reason couldn't leverage it into a commercial product that anyone was willing to buy.
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http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

> The Super Simple Storage Service (S4) is a new innovation in cloud storage. Our advanced write-only storage provides the highest security, lowest cost, and simplest management available.

I didn’t dig into the details, but unless DwarfFS is a joke, I assume they mean the system supports create, read and delete operations.
There's plenty of read-only media out there. I can see this being useful for container deployment -- you've got a database somewhere that you have read/write access to, but the deployed code doesn't need to be updated in the container. A readonly filesystem is a great way to enforce principle of least privilege.
I'd guess you build a fs image from an existing filesystem, so you'd only have read operations.