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“hikari you can't just point at anything and call it a filesystem”
points at JSON document file system.
@hikari *points at memory* filesystem
@littlefox yes
@hikari points at hikari file system
@hikari This is like the whole point of FUSE, it’s so fun. “After all, why shouldn’t I make it a filesystem?”
@hikari Time to write a filesystem where the whole volume is just raw JSON. Every file in it is an object with its data being binary encoded in base64, and the whole graph is encoded in UTF-32. The endianness is random for every volume and there is no BOM.
@hikari *points at calendar on wall* file system
@hikari *SQLite noises*
@hikari FreeBSD now has tarfs in kernel actually. you can mount a tarball directly for reading
@hikari you know, I’m something of a file system myself
@hikari I almost wanna try my hand at JSON as file system now that sounds terrible