Author here - I tried to keep "on topic" and constrain myself to files, but you're right I did drift into filesystems too which probably wasn't helpful. I thin

Author here - I tried to keep "on topic" and constrain myself to files, but you're right I did drift into filesystems too which probably wasn't helpful. I think the core argument still holds though - which is that some people (Fred included ?) see files dying out as inevitable, whereas I'm not sure that's true (for the various reasons I cite).