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That's pretty easy to do. Just use a log-structured filesystem[0]. The abstraction we use now is antiquated. It's very much reminiscent of the impedance mismatch in graphics APIs (such as OpenGL) which is now being solved (with Vulkan).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system




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