• H4mi@lemm.ee
      18·
      3 年前

      I don’t even use a file system on my storage drives. I just write the file contents raw and try to memorize where.

        • 257m@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 年前

          Sounds inefficient. You can only store 8 gigs and goes away when you shut off your computer? I just put it on punch cards and feed it into my machine.

          • Björn@swg-empire.de
            2·
            3 年前

            So archaic. Real men just flap a butterfly’s wings so that they deflect in cosmic rays in such a way that they flip the desired bits in RAM.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      3·
      3 年前

      Linux mostly doesn’t use file extensions… It relies on “magic bytes” in the file.

      Same with the web in general - it relies purely on MIME type (e.g. text/html for HTML files) and doesn’t care about extensions at all.

      • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 年前

        “Magic bytes”? We just called them headers, back in my day (even if sometimes they are at the end of the file)

        • dan@upvote.au
          4·
          3 年前

          The library that handles it is literally called “libmagic”. I’d guess the phrase “magic bytes” comes from the programming concept of a magic number?

          • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            3 年前

            I did not know about that one! It makes sense though, because a lot of headers would start with, well yeah, “magic numbers”. Makes sense.