Agreed. It is surprisingly hard to lose some of the assumptions spinning rust has left us with. Treating this as a log-structured 'soup', I think, opens up inte

Agreed. It is surprisingly hard to lose some of the assumptions spinning rust has left us with. Treating this as a log-structured 'soup', I think, opens up interesting possibilities. Interop is vital, though. I'm less concerned with being able to pull and seat a drive between machines[1] than sensible replication/backup, and a 'send/receive' type-thing shouldn't be too big of a deal. [1] Thumb drives are an obvious exception.