Ghee Design Principles

Folders are tables
Files are records
Relative paths are primary keys
Extended attributes are non-primary-key columns
Enforce schema only when present
The file contents and xattrs without the user.ghee prefix are user-controlled; only directory structure, filenames, and extended attributes in user.ghee are used by Ghee
Use of filesystem features should be preferred over implementing features directly in Ghee, e.g. locking, Btrfs subvolumes, snapshots, incremental backup