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David Masover wrote:

>
>
> Remember that a filesystem is a specialized database. It is specialized
> for performance. 

Yes, this is exactly right.  The reason earlier efforts to generalize 
filesystems failed was performance, and the reason performance reduced 
was a lack of hard work on the problem.