You would not have a "directory" in the sense you use the word (why would directory be required in a FILE system?) Instead a heap of files and you search for t

You would not have a "directory" in the sense you use the word (why would directory be required in a FILE system?) Instead a heap of files and you search for them using metadata (e.g. each file has an associated key value store that you search on). Music catalogues is a good example. In the 90s one vould wonder if the music sitting on HD should be organized as "Music/(genre)/(artist)" or "Music/(artist)/(genre)" as directories. Different choices was best for different persons. Eventually many music players for desktop (e.g. iTunes) just made a different metaphor. And Spotify, Netflix etc do not use a hierarchy but you search for items using metadata. Another example is e.g. /lib/libfoo-1.2.so Where one could instead have libraryname=foo scope=system version=1.2 sharedlibrary=true Or similar