alt Hacker NewsThanks Thomas.
To just drop the relevant paragraph that addresses my un-clarity/in-correctness (and which is super fun to read):
> Litestream v0.5 integrates LTX, our SQLite data-shipping file format. Where earlier Litestream blindly shipped whole raw SQLite pages to and from object storage, LTX ships ordered sets of pages. We built LTX for LiteFS, which uses a FUSE filesystem to do transaction-aware replication for unmodified applications, but we’ve spent this year figuring out ways to use LTX in Litestream, without all that FUSE drama.
You got it. Yeah, Ben built LiteFS a year or two ago, which is why he designed LTX. But using LiteFS required people to set up FUSE filesystems, which was too complicated for a lot of people, so Litestream got way more uptake. This past year he's been harvesting all the good stuff from LiteFS that doesn't require FUSE and building it into Litestream.
The easiest way so far to understand the split between Litestream and LiteFS: Litestream is an operational tool, for backup and restore. LiteFS is a method for doing online leader/follower replica clusters.