Filesystems are not inherently bad, of course the answer is 'it depends what you're trying to do'. Sounds like you might be interested in Plan 9: http://plan9.b

Filesystems are not inherently bad, of course the answer is 'it depends what you're trying to do'. Sounds like you might be interested in Plan 9: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/net/net.html http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/net/net.html FWIW, these ideas are not dead. For example, Erlang on Xen uses a modified 9P2000 for much of what it does: http://erlangonxen.org/more/9p2000e http://erlangonxen.org/more/9p2000e