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by adrianratnapala 2831 days ago
Right, so to be clear by "filename" I did mean something like "filename the user actually cares about".

Almost any database (including a filesystem) has a primary key, which can be thought of as a file-name. Filesystems are unusual in that ordinary users sometimes want to explicitly deal with the records (files) and their keys (names).