The file system isn't going anywhere. The file system as we know it is almost effectively an extremely partitioned index organized table of BLOB information, wh

The file system isn't going anywhere. The file system as we know it is almost effectively an extremely partitioned index organized table of BLOB information, which actually makes it more efficient when handling permission than a database would likely be. Without this hierarchical structure, permissions are nearly a nightmare to go through with. Furthermore, a database can also be implemented in a way similar to a hierarchical file system, and in many cases have much more flexibility as you get virtually unlimited extensibility (often at a cost of performance). Additional layers built on top of filesystems will make the way we interact with files obsolete, but the file system will not become obsolete.