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Persistent data is stored in files. Files may contain text, database records, source code or executable instructions, but as far as the kernel is concerned, the content of a file is merely an unstructured byte stream. Files are organised in directories.
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Holt, A., Huang, CY. (2018). The Filesystem in Detail. In: Embedded Operating Systems. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72977-0_4
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