Kent Borg said on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:23:32 -0800
>Don't underestimate how hard a file system is to make. My wife's work >uses Google web apps but they might switch to MS's competing products >(horrors). One of the complaints is Google can't reliably store >"files", they move around and get lost. Maybe Google stores the files >themselves as blobs out in a file system, but all the metadata about >the file, including the simulated "location" that is presented to the >user, is being stored in a database. And it is hard to get that right. >(Particularly in this world of continuous integration/continuous >deployment, that worships feature velocity, is not designed before it >is built, and fired the QA department.) If by "web apps" you mean wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, etc, if you do that with software on the web, you're asking for data loss. And it's no surprise that all these web apps make it difficult to make a local backup: They want to be able to hold your data hostage. There are plenty of Free Software programs that run locally on Linux, Windows or Mac, that allow you to own your own data. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
