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It's absolutely an impressive feat to pull this off. But it's not quite the same problem as building a robust general-purpose FS for a diverse ecosystem.


True; and yet, it feels like there is much low-hanging fruit left in filesystens that are just built for specific vertically-integrated use-cases. A NAS hardware-appliance company, for example, could likely pull off something similar to what Apple did, and to great benefit.


NetApp have making good money with custom NAS boxes, complete with their own OS and filesystem, since 1993 or so.


Or just use btrfs on top of software Linux raid like synology does.


This does already happen, albeit it often isn't advertised.




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