Here's an implementation of precisely that, as a filesystem: https://github.com/philipl/pifs https://github.com/philipl/pifs Discussed here previously (2014):

Here's an implementation of precisely that, as a filesystem: https://github.com/philipl/pifs https://github.com/philipl/pifs Discussed here previously (2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018818