Sounds like a read-only version of AFS [1], which had a global namespace and was used for software distribution as well as data sharing/collaboration. If you na

Sounds like a read-only version of AFS [1], which had a global namespace and was used for software distribution as well as data sharing/collaboration. If you narrow the use case to software distribution, I suppose read only is a reasonable trade off if it enables higher performance. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System