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Life & fun · August 9, 2016

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A FUSE Filesystem on Noms

Adam Leventhal's Blog

A FUSE Filesystem on Noms launched on August 9, 2016 with 16 votes, #1,715 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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A FUSE Filesystem on Noms is a filesystem implementation built on top of Noms, a content-addressable, decentralized, append-only database. Created by Adam Leventhal, the project demonstrates how to use Noms—which combines concepts from traditional databases, Git, and decentralized systems—as the foundation for a functional filesystem. The project is designed for developers interested in exploring innovative approaches to data storage and management using Noms' persistent, transactional architecture.

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Since Noms dropped last week the dev community has seemed into it. “Git for data” — it simultaneously evokes something very familiar and yet unconstrained. Something that hasn’t been well-noted is how much care the team has taken to make Noms fun to build with, and it is. Noms is a content-addressable, decentralized, append-only database. It borrows concepts from a variety of interesting data systems. Obviously databases are represented: Noms is a persistent, transactional data repository. You can also see the fundamentals of git and other decentralized source code management tools. Noms builds up a chain of commits; those chains can be extended, forked, and shared, while historical data…from dtrace.org

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