[matklad]

Yes, very good point, thanks!

As a tiny nit, TigerBeetle isn't _file system_ backed database, we intentionally limit ourselves to a single "file", and can work with a raw block device or partition, without file system involvement.

[fsckboy]

>we intentionally limit ourselves to a single "file", and can work with a raw block device or partition, without file system involvement

those features all go together as one thing. and it's the unix way of accessing block devices (and their interchangeability with streams from the client software perspective)

you're right, it's not the file system.