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Key Value store backed by HFS+ extended attributes

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2014-05-24 · latest 2025-10-21

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  1. …technique is to use xattrs :) I made a pointless program to help w/ this on macOS for kicks: https://github.com/radiofreejohn/xattrkv When I made it I also found a bug in the xattr implementation for Darwin and submitted it to Apple, they…
    comment by codezero · 2025-10-21 · in Build your own database
  2. Nice! I made a "joke" key value store that uses HFS+ xattr file system attributes https://github.com/radiofreejohn/xattrkv In the process I found a bug in one of the Darwin syscalls. Still not fixed :(
    comment by codezero · 2015-06-26 · in Gkv – Git as a key-value store
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    story by codezero · 2014-05-24 · 1 comment