50 years in filesystems: towards 2004 – LFS
Current file systems are impressive - flexible, robust, close the hardware performance. But I&#x27;m disappointed that we are still using such low level models for our day to day computing. Files = everything is an array of bytes and every program&#x2F;library has to interpret and manage those bytes, &quot;manually&quot;, individually, and slightly differently to other programs!<p>It&#x27;s understandable to use &quot;files&quot; when running retro apps, but it&#x27;s way past time that a high level model rendered the concept of files obsolete.<p>(I can be hopeful but I hold not outlook for such better models. Too many backwards compatible apps and too much depends on our existing code.)