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Comment by euroderf

3 months ago

There seems to be no single software solution "out there" for mounting an SQLite DB (or an SQLite archive) as a file system, with or without per-record relative paths.

Why would you want to do that?

  • Convenience? Not cluttering up a directory with a transient file tree?

    • But why would you want to use SQLite for that?

      On a Mac, you'd e.g. use and mount a disk image if you wanted to create a filesystem inside of a file. Windows has virtual hard drives, and you can do that kind of thing on Linux too.

      I don't understand why you'd ever want to use a relational database for that. It's a completely different paradigm.

      Although I also don't really understand why you're worried about cluttering up a directory. And if it's transient, it's that when temp dirs are for?

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