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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.