[C0DEHERO]

Well, I could see a problem occurring if Poettering decided not to represent efivars as files. Many people would claim that Systemd is trying to get rid of the Unix philosophy and force everyone to use the software if they want to keep up. After all, so many people are already complaining that Systemd uses a binary format to store logs.

[Silhouette]

My view is that treating everything in the universe as part of the same filesystem hierarchy is one UNIX philosophy we should have dispensed with long ago. I don't think it makes sense to project the same abstractions we use to represent file storage onto other aspects of a system just because they also happen to provide some information and then to treat everything as part of a huge, monolithic, homogeneous structure. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is very complicated already -- a discussion for another time, perhaps -- but what does something like "rm -rf /" (or any other actual file/directory manipulation) even mean at this point? I think reverence for some of these ideas just because they are "the UNIX way" is holding the industry back.