Yes, that's right. We could go even further, to use the raw devices without relying on any filesystem. We then need to allocate/format raw disk spaces and we can not just open files as simple as right now. It would take some extra effort, but we would like to explore that in the future.

It will also make the system initialization faster, since right now we need to write all zeros to make ext4/xfs to actually initialize extents as "allocated".