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YAML and TOML suck. Long live the FAMF!

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is also going to make some devs (me) convulse when a PR is like, "small config change. updated 29 files".

[–] prma@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

I have one that has 69 (noice) files changed.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was my first reaction just by reading the title.

Mostly because I learned the hard way what inodes are.

[–] prma@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Read the content. I address that issue.

[–] Ferk@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

For the record, you mention "the limitations of the number of inodes in Unix-like systems", but this is not a limit in Unix, but a limit in filesystem formats (which also extends to Windows and other systems).

So it depends more on what the filesystem is rather than the OS. A FAT32 partition can only hold 65,535 files (2^16), but both ext4 and NTFS can have up to 4,294,967,295 (2^32). If using Btrfs then it jumps to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 (2^64).

[–] prma@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

You are right. Fat32 is not recommended for implementing FAMF.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago

I know, I read it because I wanted to know too know if it was addressed

[–] prma@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What would you do with billions of inodes?

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Run out, far more frequently than you would imagine.

[–] prma@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Well I'd you have so many data entry, yaml and toml are not that helpful either. They would present different sets of problems. You should use a database (perhaps sqlite) for that purpose.