I don't think I agree that the local filesystem is a good, common abstraction. It's a serviceable abstraction most of the time, and a terrible abstraction at ot

I don't think I agree that the local filesystem is a good, common abstraction. It's a serviceable abstraction most of the time, and a terrible abstraction at other times. This isn't just some contrarian stance I'm taking--I've just spent too much time fighting with filesystem semantics on too many OSs. Going through FUSE is, in my mind, a last resort.