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a library that implements a POSIX style filesystem on top of an SQLite database

17 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2014-10-03 · latest 2024-04-30

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  1. Closest I found: https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs > The libsqlfs library implements a POSIX style file system on top of an SQLite database. It allows applications to have access to a full read/write file system in a single file,…
    comment by speps · 2024-04-30 · in The File Filesystem (2021)
  2. …I can reset the "file system" using SQL after each test instead of copying the entire datadir. [1]: https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
    comment by sa46 · 2023-10-27 · in Why you should probably be using SQLite
  3. Not sure about compression but somebody could probably hack it in an afternoon using this: https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs or something similar to check the potential for speed up.
    comment by scotty79 · 2023-01-15 · in Faster than the filesystem (2021)
  4. > but also presents as a true filesystem. As does: https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs https://github.com/narumatt/sqlitefs (I know nothing about these, just got them from a quick search)
    comment by Izkata · 2023-01-15 · in Faster than the filesystem (2021)
  5. …layer using SQLite as a storage mechanism. Here's an example of someone doing that very thing. https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
    comment by samanator · 2022-07-29 · in Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
  6. Add https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
    comment by hughrr · 2022-02-23 · in Is it time to remove reiserfs?
  7. Already there. E.g. https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs but I'd also count something like s3ql where the data is stored as s3 objects.
    comment by tobias3 · 2021-09-27 · in SQLite Archive Files (2018)
  8. now let's see what it takes to make absurd-fs, where we use https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs to make a filesystem on top of sqlite on top of the File System Access API. gotta keep ourselves fully looped! ⥀ (is there perchance a…
    comment by rektide · 2021-08-12 · in A future for SQL on the web
  9. …solution to use sqlite may be drbd. [0] https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html [1] https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
    comment by zippie · 2019-12-08 · in File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph
  10. https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs already exists
    comment by dymk · 2019-08-18 · in 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)
  11. Here you go: https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
    comment by dymk · 2019-08-18 · in 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)
  12. …[1] with libsqlfs [2], which has a FUSE interface. 1. https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher 2. https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
    comment by chrisballinger · 2017-12-06 · in Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust
  13. …whether this actually helps with the problem described in the post, but such a thing does exist: https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
    comment by andolanra · 2016-04-16 · in Unix’s file durability problem