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iansjack wrote:But a filesystem is more than a means of storing a single file.

If this RSFS had more features, it would lose its whole point. I think it is still possible to implement all essential parts of a file system driver interface. Someone might call that a file system.

iansjack wrote:A "filesystem" consisting of a single file is similar to a Periodic Table containing only one element - and just as useful.

Usefulness is an interesting topic. There are simple multi-file systems already existing. I have no new ideas for creating a simple multi-file system that is better than those existing ones are. I did create a single-file system that has something unique and I am sure it is more useful than a multi-file system that I may had created.

Well, many things are "unique" or haven't been done (or at least not become widely known) because they are rather pointless and/or stupid. I'm not yet fully convinced that a single-file file system doesn't belong to this category.

Considering its substantiual size and the quantity of content contained herein I would like to suggest that this thread could be moved out of the Auto-Delete forum.