The idea as I stated it is super half-baked but > You could probably do the same thing with directories but I haven't thought about it. For example in the FAT

The idea as I stated it is super half-baked but > You could probably do the same thing with directories but I haven't thought about it. For example in the FAT filesystem, a directory is just a file with a special flag set in its file descriptor and inside said file there is just a list of file descriptors. Not sure if something so simple would a good idea, but it certainly works and has worked IRL.