Right. My vision is of a /docfs under which you might travers /au/stephenson/ti/snowcrash or /ti/snowcrash/au/stephenson, as an example. Either way works.

If a search terminates in multiple (or no) results, it's a directory, if in a single result, it's that file. Plus a few twists (virtual / dynamically generated file formats, summaries, synopses, metadata).