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Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o... by hsn915 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:19PM (#46642260)
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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Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o... by sroerick on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:33PM (#46643024)
I'm glad you noticed this, I thought this was a wildly insane thing to do. Its like the satanic inversion of 9P protocol
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Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o... by satoru42 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:29PM (#46642321)
Show me an operating system built on top of a browser that can be used to solve real-world problems like JuiceFS.
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Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o... by seany on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:59PM (#46642501)
https://github.com/tractordev/apptron ?
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Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o... by ycombinatrix on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:40PM (#46642378)
OrbitDB?
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Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o... by hsn915 on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:29AM (#46643305)
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.

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Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o... by sroerick on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:12PM (#46648871)
Why are you building an operating system on top of a browser?
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