|
| dumbfounder wrote:
| Favorite part: "I had several hundred different versions of Perl
| that were taking up something around 30 gigabytes of disk space".
| That's a lot of Perl.
| vardump wrote:
| Pretty amazing fs!
|
| Shame that it can't be used much commercially in many cases due
| to GPLv3 license. This could improve so many embedded systems
| currently using SquashFS.
| synergy20 wrote:
| it's not in standard linux kernel(unlike squashfs) plus it is
| less field tested comparing to squashfs, more importantly I too
| avoid GPLv3 in any commercial product. Anything GPLv3 will be
| off my check-out list for anything immediately because I
| honestly don't know what GPLv3 really means to me. I use GPLv2
| cautiously wherever it fits as I feel at least I know what it
| implies.
| rmatt2000 wrote:
| A few years ago, I designed an incredibly fast write-only file
| system, but for some reason couldn't leverage it into a
| commercial product that anyone was willing to buy.
| osigurdson wrote:
| I didn't dig into the details, but unless DwarfFS is a joke, I
| assume they mean the system supports create, read and delete
| operations.
| notamy wrote:
| https://devnull-as-a-service.com/ (:
| gabagool wrote:
| http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
|
| > The Super Simple Storage Service (S4) is a new innovation in
| cloud storage. Our advanced write-only storage provides the
| highest security, lowest cost, and simplest management
| available.
| metadat wrote:
| "DwarFS compression is an order of magnitude better than SquashFS
| compression, it's 6 times faster to build the file system, it's
| typically faster to access files on DwarFS and it uses less CPU
| resources."
|
| Credit and thanks to coldblues for alerting me about this!
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32212870
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