@SRAZKVT you can use my fractal zip format for this purpose actually (one of the design goals was representing a dataset with changes over time). that's actually a really fascinating corollary of using it to represent atomic transitions between reproducible filesystem states....................i did not realize that VCS is precisely a formulation of atomic filesystem transactions. need to think about this further
@SRAZKVT i was probably so so close to this exact epiphany when i tried to prototype sharing the twitter git FUSE object db with the pants object store. i couldn't understand what the hell a commit was and ended up making this i/o virtualization framework instead https://github.com/cosmicexplorer/upc/blob/master/local/memory/LibMemory.scala
@SRAZKVT thank you aaaaaaaaaaa
@SRAZKVT one thing i've noticed is that OS research has this idea of a "checkpoint" like a save state but doesn't have any concept of like a delta between states. checkpoints are just reset points. filesystems have snapshots over time like zfs but they're not like a way to replay the result of a process execution, they just use generic tree diffing algorithms and consider it an optimization. there's no idea of reproducible semantics
