Re:How One New Service Is Tackling The Death Of The File System
by eps on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:06PM
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They are making the same old mistake of over-abstracting.
The fundamental difference between local and remote is the access latency. Until they can get remote content from there to here as fast as they can get it from a local drive, all this "file system is dead" will remain a non-technical marketing bullshit that is out of touch with the real-world application issues. Why the hell you would want to hide the fact that file.mov is 10 hops away behind a saturated link? You don't.
The fundamental difference between local and remote is the access latency. Until they can get remote content from there to here as fast as they can get it from a local drive, all this "file system is dead" will remain a non-technical marketing bullshit that is out of touch with the real-world application issues. Why the hell you would want to hide the fact that file.mov is 10 hops away behind a saturated link? You don't.
"Death of the file system." Jesus.