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Forget about "filesystems" for a moment.

Files exist because the amounts of "stuff" users want to "store" do not always correlate well to block size.

To put it another way, block size is fixed. But the size of "stuff" is variable.

OK, now you can go back to thinking in terms of "file systems".



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