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Re:Interim OS: minimalist OS influenced by Lisp machines and... by nerdponx on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:29PM (#18203576)
consumes a block device and database mapping a hierarchy of tree-nodes with stringly-keyed names to seekable byte-buffers

Sounds pretty much like a filesystem to me. Isn't this basically what Linux already does?

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Re:Interim OS: minimalist OS influenced by Lisp machines and... by idle_zealot on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:35PM (#18204095)
OP is describing a file system in the text you quoted. So I should hope that it sounds like what Linux does now.
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