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ultimate storage hack (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago

I had a manager once tell me during a casual conversation with complete sincerity that one day with advancements in compression algorithms we could get any file down to a single bit. I really didn't know what to say to that level of absurdity. I just nodded.

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Just make a file system that maps each file name to 2 files. The 0 file and the 1 file.

Now with just a filename and 1 bit, you can have any file! The file is just 1 bit. It's the filesystems that needs more than that.

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