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I remember a while back asking about this kind of thing - can files be found and stored using something like Pi? I can’t find the original post, partly because the search on this site doesn’t think that two letters is important for a search.

So a new thread. Someone is doing this.

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

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Pifs is a revolutionary new file system that, instead of wasting space storing your data on your hard drive, stores your data in Pi! You'll never run out of space again - Pi holds every file that could possibly exist! They said 100% compression was impossible? You're looking at it!


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Wouldn't storing the index into Pi be as big (or bigger) than the original data?

https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/23

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