Comment by jstummbillig
2 years ago
Let's assume that filesystems are fairly optimized pieces of software. Let's assume that the people building them heard of databases and at some point along the way considered things like the costs of open/close calls.
What is SQLite not doing that filesystems are?
A discussion in the comments of the cost of opening a file on Windows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21309852/what-is-the-mem...
Access control is a big cost. Some AV systems (like everyone's favourite Crowdstrike) also hook every open/close.