very simple datastore reimplementation

[david at lang.hm]

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Eben Eliason wrote:

> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>> FUSE is great, but...
>>
>> It means interoperability must be an explicit planned-in-advance action:
>> if a datastore is already on a removable device in your pocket, and you
>> need to access something on a foreign system, you are stuck unless there
>> is some minimal level of human interpretability of the file system...
>
> You implicitly assume that the kids have managed to get DS formatted
> files onto the external device here, though, which is something I
> don't think we /need/ to do if we don't want to. I guess the case that
> worries me here, though, is backup.  I'm not sure it's prudent to
> "decompress" and "recompress" with each backup and restore...

may I suggest that you dig into git and see how it manages to avoid 
sending everything uncompressed when you do a pull. it sounds like a very 
similar problem and so similar solutions may apply.

David Lang