> Yes it really cannot emphasized enough that the legacy filesystem system interface with it's too-simple 1970s origin and then far, far, far too complex decades of duck tape is a disasterous albatros.

Except that nobody will sign on.

Look at what happened to FreeBSD in the 5.0 timeframe when they reworked their storage layers into GEOM. It was a NIGHTMARE. Most people agreed it needed to be done, but there was an excruciatingly loud segment who complained incessantly. It took some gigantic brass balls and asbestos-lined flamesuits on the part of FreeBSD heavy hitters to drive it through.

If the system in Linux is to get fixed, Linus would probably have to step in and pronounce.