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by foobiekr 407 days ago
Microsoft poured at least $100M into this hole with nothing to show for it.
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That doesn't disprove anything for me. It just says POSIX DOS lowest common denominator network effects are a hell of a drug.

Whenever we're talking about interfaces, coordination success or failure is the name of the game.

What problem do you think a DB-as-filesystem solves? The only obvious one that makes any sense at all is cross-file transactions.
The filesystem is a bad database

Directories are a shitty underpowered way to organize data?

No good transactions

Conflation of different needs such as atomic replace vs log-structured

I would like to use a better database instead.

Would you pay 50x performance decrease?
No, and I would also not need to.