The article talks about the file system abstraction and that NixOS is parting ways with it:
> It is not even a new idea for Nix to propose parting ways with one of the most pervasive skeuomorphisms in computing, the file system, which naturally followed from an era where everything was a piece of paper.
What I am wondering is if this is not extremely similar to the way that plan9 handles files? As far as I understand, in plan9, there is still a file system - but there is no common root, every process can have an own view what is, for example, in /bin.
> It is not even a new idea for Nix to propose parting ways with one of the most pervasive skeuomorphisms in computing, the file system, which naturally followed from an era where everything was a piece of paper.
What I am wondering is if this is not extremely similar to the way that plan9 handles files? As far as I understand, in plan9, there is still a file system - but there is no common root, every process can have an own view what is, for example, in /bin.