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 # A post-UNIX storage layer
 
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 This repository hosts a proof-of-concept storage system and synthetic file- 
 system frontend for the Genode OS framework. The concept of the *file* has been 
 replaced with the *blob*, a finite and linear stream of bytes. Blobs are