&quot;Just implemented better&quot;? &quot;Just&quot;?<p>If it were as simple as you imply it is then surely we&#x27;d see this change made trivially to SMB, NFS, WebDAV, or SSHFS.<p>I agree with you that in hindsight this is an obvious feature, but they actually decided to implement it, and I bet it wasn&#x27;t entirely trivial.