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by tenebrisalietum
1382 days ago
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A filesystem translates a filename-based streaming I/O API to the way a disk talks, which is "Read/write 512 times X bytes of data at disk block N." The I/O API or "commands" are the same; different filesystems will implement it differently. |
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I wasn't aware of the intricacies of this stuff - I'll have to do some more reading in my free time.