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		foobiekr 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector da... Perhaps so, but in the expansive definition you're using, even an in-memory binary tree qualifies as a database, which makes your point meaningless.

Ericson2314 5 months ago | [–]

I'm OK including that — tmpfs is similar, but we can easily exclude that by requiring persistence. The intentional definition doesn't need to be expansive the point of being useless!

aforwardslash 5 months ago | [–]

Nitpick: An in-memory hash table can be a filesystem :)

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