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Yet even Microsoft tried to shove something like that into the PC world, whether it was the OFS effort during Cairo development, up to WinFS that actually appeared in a developer's release of Longhorn.

And even more recently, there've been efforts to expose a native key:value interface on SSDs, to let the drive controller handle the abstraction of the underlying flash cells.

I'm not well-enough versed in this stuff to understand how similar these things are to what you're talking about, however. Very much appreciate any clue you feel like offering.




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