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by mrlongroots 414 days ago
Thoughts:

1. Distributed filesystems do often use databases for metadata (FoundationDB for 3FS being a recent example)

2. Using a B+ tree for metadata is not much different from having a sorted index

3. Filesystems are a common enough usecase that skipping the abstraction complexity to co-optimize the stack is warranted