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How would this file system work for the non-technical user? I'm sure there will be plenty more people chiming in on the inefficiency and inferiority of the folder structure, but how about the average user?

Genuinely curious. The more I think about this type of system, the more questions I have. It seems like you would only want to use this with a SSD or other non-disk based storage.

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"How would this file system work for the non-technical user?"

It does raise a number of questions that aren't immediately obvious without immediately falling back to a hybrid approach, even if it's internally. But then, you're back to folder structures again, just in a way that is opaque to the user.

For me, I was actually curious how existing namespaces in languages that are so intertwined with nested folder structures would now work (such as Java and Python).

Not to mention web browsers and web servers, which expect URLs to map to a hierarchical file system. E.g., http://example.com/dir1/dir2/foo.htm.

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