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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by satyenr on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @03:02PM (#20158463)
Again, why do you care about files? Logs have nothing to do with files. Files are just the interface used by filesystem to show the event stream that is logs so you can use file based tools to access the.

I am not calling it a filesystem. Let’s call it a data bank?

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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by heavenlyblue on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:59PM (#20159487)
It already exists in the form of databases.

First that comes to mind is etcd.

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