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billswift on Aug 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Data Deduplication with Linux

I remember a spate of academic articles a few (3-7?) years ago talking about how all filesystems were going to be replaced by single huge databases to hold all our "files", maybe this is partially a continuation of that research.

alecco on Aug 28, 2011 [–]

I remember over a decade ago Microsoft was working on a FAT based filesystem backed by one of their database engines.

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