7 Files and storage
This chapter covers
- Learning how data is represented on physical storage devices
- Writing data structures to your preferred file format
- Building a tool to read from a file and inspect its contents
- Creating a working key-value store that’s immune from corruption
Storing data permanently on digital media is trickier than it looks. This chapter takes you though some of the details. To transfer information held by ephemeral electrical charges in RAM to (semi)permanent storage media and then be able to retrieve it again later takes several layers of software indirection.
The chapter introduces some new concepts such as how to structure projects into library crates for Rust developers. This task is needed because one of the projects ...
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