[ocdtrekkie]

I do think sandboxing the file system makes sense. I recall on early Androids just seeing an arbitrary dumpster of files on the SD card for different apps and uses, and tons of apps had access to all of them. That's concerning.

But ideally, the user should be able to create an arbitrary storage location (say, a folder), and then permit specific apps to access it, without granting the app "file system access" as a whole.

Capability-based systems with a powerbox/picker UI are designed this way, so my guess is Fuchsia will work a bit more like this.

[arebours]

Totally agree. It works pretty well on iOS with APFS so multiple file copies occupy the same storage space. Not sure about Android though.