Post #785988

FAQ: Q: "Why have you made all these posts with weird base64ed data?" A: my web host doesn't charge for storage so I just put my personal files on here, in between my normal blog posts! Q: ...you're storing info as ...WordPress posts? A: Yeah, it works fine! Can be a little slow but hard to beat free! Q: ...so how do you *find* files, the titles are just random base64 too. Is it encrypted? A: Nope! File blocks are stored inline- they're actually CoWed and immutable, editing posts caused some data loss i can't be bothered to debt. technically every post is actually a *diff* for this reason; I have a Python script that reads the RSS feed and exposes all my files to me over FUSE. Q: and writes work the same way? A: yup! You just make a new post saying "I've overwritten the first 512 bytes in file foo with (data here)" and publish it. Q: that's terrible A: first time hearing about a blog-structured filesystem?