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@FrozenFire you're making a lot of sense here

@yoshuawuyts imagine replacing your filesystem with a transactional object store, or a content-addressable store, or a database

@FrozenFire I thought FUSE kinda allowed for this, though I can imagine all the hoop jumping definitely has implications

@yoshuawuyts FUSE lets you back the POSIX filesystem API with new things without writing kernel code, no more, no less

@yoshuawuyts you can't, say, just mount S3 to FUSE in any sensible way, because you'll have to provide bullshit semantics

@yoshuawuyts when stuck in a C/UNIX world, shoehorning things into APIs that don't quite fit but already exist is a fine survival strategy

@yoshuawuyts but pretending it's a good idea gets you Plan 9, and makes a mockery of perf

@yoshuawuyts the other half is that immensely interesting and versatile technology backs rather specific and boring APIs