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Re:Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store by amelius on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:23AM (#32213250)
> Its trivial to set up and operate kvass across multiple devices

Still, using a distributed file system is so much better, as its API is supported by basically everything else (including Dropbox!).

I feel that a key-value store goes against the Unix philosophy and is solving an imaginary problem.

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Re:Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store by vineyardmike on Sunday July 24, 2022 @01:16PM (#32215532)
A distributed file system seems like way more work to set up.

Also not everything has to follow the Unix philosophy. Plenty of very useful things are better off less Unix-y eg ffmpeg. But this doesn’t seem to do a bad job - it’s a very dedicated tool to do one thing, it just doesn’t store everything as files.

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