>What we need is not [...] cloud storage. We need [...] a decent distributed filesystem,
Distributed files to where exactly? You need to be more concrete about the remote location of non-local data that normal people can use. Ok, so you want "distributed filesystem" to not mean "cloud storage" ... So is it p2p? Something else?
In other words, we want Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, Android, etc operating systems... to have a file system that all points to the same "distributed filesystem" and see the same files -- and for other collaborators to see those files.
But we don't want those os configurations to point to DropBox / MS OneDrive / Google Drive / Backblaze, etc. So, we need to be concrete on the alternative common remote location that those file system APIs would point to. What would the topology of that solution look like?
Distributed files to where exactly? You need to be more concrete about the remote location of non-local data that normal people can use. Ok, so you want "distributed filesystem" to not mean "cloud storage" ... So is it p2p? Something else?
In other words, we want Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, Android, etc operating systems... to have a file system that all points to the same "distributed filesystem" and see the same files -- and for other collaborators to see those files.
But we don't want those os configurations to point to DropBox / MS OneDrive / Google Drive / Backblaze, etc. So, we need to be concrete on the alternative common remote location that those file system APIs would point to. What would the topology of that solution look like?