alt Hacker Newsit’s the claim of it being a file system that’s throwing me. obviously nbd but maybe my mental models broken again.
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atoav • today at 6:43 AM
File system is the wrong word. What they should have used is file format.
It is not wrong that you can have a file (bits and bytes encoded in the shape described by a file format) on some remote point. If you have an index of those files where you can programmatically choose between multiple files that could even pass as a crude "file system". But I doubt this is what they meant to refer to.
It is likelier they wrongly assumed a file system is the system in which a file is organized, where in fact they meant file format.
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The difference between a file system and a container format is mostly a matter of perspective - indeed OSX literally uses "disk images" as their container format. Is .zip a filesystem? You probably wouldn't want to use it natively on a disk, but for a lot of purposes it's the same kind of thing.