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Re:Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo pa... by techdragon on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:43AM (#15539700)
Sounds like your looking for something like MangoDb https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb

Note: joke assumes parent poster was somewhat humorous

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Re:Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo pa... by DarronWyke on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:45AM (#15541442)
Obligatory: "Tokutek claims to improve MongoDB performance 20x. It is unclear if this also means losing 20x as many documents."
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Re:Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo pa... by emptyroads on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:10AM (#15540503)
nsafs might be another good choice: https://github.com/freedomtools/nsafs
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Re:Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo pa... by djsumdog on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:48AM (#15541464)
I didn't realize there were so many of these jokefs projects.

It's like the software dev equivalent of those silly domain jokes:

https://helenkellersimulator.org/

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

http://thingsididlastnight.com/

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Re:Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo pa... by empyrical on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:34PM (#15542888)
Another good one: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
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Re:Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo pa... by LambdaComplex on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:32AM (#15542297)
I wrote a joke filesystem that does nothing but provide 1x1 PNG files[0]

(I was bored and asked for dumb filesystem ideas on IRC)

0. https://github.com/sector-f/colorfs

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Re:Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo pa... by metahost on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:33AM (#15541378)
That's innovative!
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