---
title: "Introducing LiteFS"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-litefs-d-epm-hvd
source_url: https://fly.io/blog/introducing-litefs/
type: article
source: "Fly.io"
published: 2022-09-21T14:07:50.899Z
updated: 2022-09-21T14:07:50.834Z
tags: ["database", "postgresql", "hashicorp", "aws-s3", "sqlite"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 15
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Introducing LiteFS

**[Fly.io](https://daily.dev/sources/flydotio)** · 9 min read · 15 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

LiteFS works by interposing a very thin virtual file system between your app and your on-disk database file. The FUSE file system solves many of these usability issues by being a single point that all database calls go through. LiteFS also needs to run an API server to replicate data between nodes. It uses Hashicorp's Consul to determine the primary node in your cluster.

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**@idoshamun** · 1 upvotes

> This is super cool! Litestream on steroids 💪

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Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#hashicorp](https://daily.dev/tags/hashicorp), [#aws-s3](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-s3), [#sqlite](https://daily.dev/tags/sqlite)

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