2026-03-10 16:40:58 <KipIngram   > I'm planning B tree for my file system when I get there.
2026-03-10 16:41:31 <KipIngram   > It's one of the bits I've thought about a lot and sketched out on paper a lot.
2026-03-10 16:43:16 <KipIngram   > I'm also planning a second use of B trees for a generic hyperlinking system within the file system.  Basically an ability to link any bit of any file to any bit of any other file.
2026-03-10 16:43:54 <KipIngram   > The significance of the links will be application dependent, but one will be that remote commenting / documenting facility I've mentioned.
2026-03-10 16:44:45 <veltas      > It feels like B-tree is a good candidate for a "one datastructure to rule them all"
2026-03-10 16:45:01 <veltas      > But they're just quite complicated.  In favor of them though... all the self-balancing trees are hard
2026-03-10 16:45:20 <KipIngram   > Yeah, they're definitely on the involved side.
2026-03-10 16:45:21 <veltas      > And B-trees scale... you can use them on disk or in RAM.
2026-03-10 16:45:36 <KipIngram   > Right.
2026-03-10 16:45:37 <veltas      > They work if you're using KB's or PB's
2026-03-10 16:45:42 <veltas      > etc