Ask HN: Tool for Validating Filesystem Structure
Frequently people will ask for a very specific thing, not understanding the greater context of what they are asking for. If they knew the greater context, then they would be asking different questions.<p>I suspect this question is one of those questions, but since this question feels foreign, I am probably the one who doesn&#x27;t understand the greater context.<p>Why don&#x27;t you need replication? What are the limitations you have (economic?) that resulted in this architecture?<p>An example question might be, what value does the directory structure add over just hashing the file, storing the file by it&#x27;s hash in the same directory with all the other files, and then referencing the hash in your SQL?