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Comment by msgodel

2 days ago

Can it? Files on Windows 95 and files on most Unix-like OSes are very different things.

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userbinator  2 days ago

They're the same from the perspective of a stream of persistent bytes.

If you want "very different" then look at the record-based filesystems used in mainframes.

  • CodesInChaos  2 days ago

    Do you have any recommended reading about record-based filesystems?

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