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This is exactly what I needed - not a lot of people are doing eventually inconsistent databases yet. If theres a network partition, shits probably fucked anyways so its best to throw away all your data.

Unfortunately the metadata (list of files) is stored in memory, not network. Not quite as unreliable as I would like.

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Sounds like your looking for something like MangoDb https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb

Note: joke assumes parent poster was somewhat humorous

nsafs might be another good choice: https://github.com/freedomtools/nsafs

That's innovative!

I didn't realize there were so many of these jokefs projects.

It's like the software dev equivalent of those silly domain jokes:

https://helenkellersimulator.org/

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

http://thingsididlastnight.com/

I wrote a joke filesystem that does nothing but provide 1x1 PNG files[0]

(I was bored and asked for dumb filesystem ideas on IRC)

0. https://github.com/sector-f/colorfs

Another good one: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

Obligatory: "Tokutek claims to improve MongoDB performance 20x. It is unclear if this also means losing 20x as many documents."

Eventually inconsistent databases could save a lot of the effort developers faced with databases without inconsistency guarantees put into implementing eventual inconsistency at the application level.

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