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SubjectRe: file as a directory
David Masover wrote:

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> Remember that a filesystem is a specialized database. It is specialized
> for performance.

Yes, this is exactly right. The reason earlier efforts to generalize
filesystems failed was performance, and the reason performance reduced
was a lack of hard work on the problem.

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