> Ultimately, it seems the "keep the filesystem simple and build further abstractions inside files" design has lead to the greatest success ... Perhaps another

> Ultimately, it seems the "keep the filesystem simple and build further abstractions inside files" design has lead to the greatest success ... Perhaps another example of the "end to end principle"? [1] While the original statement of the principle is over networks, the same seems to apply here .. where a file system is like a network protocol for communicating with the same system over time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle