Some databases also have the ability to be instantly portable, like a sqlite file.
You can tar up your flat files as well, but that is a separate process and can be time consuming for larger directories.
Perhaps there is a use case for a file system backed by portable database like sqlite, such that you can just mount the volume and send it around without pain, but can prefer to use normal command line utils (ls, rm, grep, etc) instead of interacting via SQL.
You can tar up your flat files as well, but that is a separate process and can be time consuming for larger directories.
Perhaps there is a use case for a file system backed by portable database like sqlite, such that you can just mount the volume and send it around without pain, but can prefer to use normal command line utils (ls, rm, grep, etc) instead of interacting via SQL.