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by hsn915 156 days ago
This is upside down.

We need a kernel native distributed file system so that we can build distributed storage/databases on top of it.

This is like building an operating system on top of a browser.

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I'm glad you noticed this, I thought this was a wildly insane thing to do. Its like the satanic inversion of 9P protocol
Show me an operating system built on top of a browser that can be used to solve real-world problems like JuiceFS.
My criticism is of the basic architecture, not usability or fitness for a particular purpose.

If a distributed file system is useful, then a properly architectured one is 100x more useful and more performant.

Why are you building an operating system on top of a browser?
OrbitDB?