the problem with filesystems

“There are few differences among filesystems; most closely follow the Unix model. And alas, one of the few innovators in filesystem design is now in prison for murder.”

(Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way, p. 62.)

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