618: Type System Says No

8046.952 - 8066.606 John Siracusa

You can keep a central database, but then your central database diverges instantaneously from the disk that it is databasing, and you're constantly chasing it around to try to keep the database up to date with the state of the disk. It's a type of thing that... This is where my principles and tastes say, this should be implemented in the... It has to be implemented in the file system.