I don't know where you are coming from; everything I'm saying is entirely consistent with how the industry (I work in IT and "local filesystem" and "remote file

I don't know where you are coming from; everything I'm saying is entirely consistent with how the industry (I work in IT and "local filesystem" and "remote filesystem" are terms we all use, including with our storage vendors) talks about storage. Here's an example paper comparing filesystems and their performance for precisely this kind of problem: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01326-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01326-w figure 1A, B I work in this field and the figure text makes perfect sense to me and all my coworkers.