> The ceremonial file tree doesn't 'work' for nearly anybody. All significant apps embed their own structured data inside a big file, effectively implementing t

> The ceremonial file tree doesn't 'work' for nearly anybody. All significant apps embed their own structured data inside a big file, effectively implementing their own filesystem. The OS could have done so much to help. Do you mean like a SQLite file? You have to consider how much there is to gain from embedding this stuff deeper. > In particular, no single OS can reimplement a distributed object store by themselves - there has to be an ecosystem. Somebody big has to invent that. Then, how to shim that under the file tree without changing the OS? E.g. I want an entire enterprise to get their apps from ... wherever its convenient for them to be stored today. Not from c:\xyz on their local disk. And I want some subset of my users to change to a new version without obsoleting the old, by changing the directory record in my enterprise cloud, NOT by triggering some binary update monstrostrosity, then writing another script to back out the update etc. This doesn't necessarily need to be in the OS. Look at it as a technical problem to solve. Is there a way to meet this need without changing the OS? There's usually a creative solution.