Four fake filesystems!

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Four concrete demos: GrabFS exposes live window images so a one‑liner snapshots Safari every second; BTFS mounts a torrent and lazily fetches pieces so a 2 GB Ubuntu ISO opens without downloading; YTFS makes a search folder whose entries appear as mp4 files streamed on demand; GitFS mounts a GitHub repo as a writable tree so commits can be manipulated via normal file tools. Each filesystem is shown working end to end, reusing standard shell and GUI tools.

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1. 0:00What is a file
2. 1:15GrabFS
3. 3:30BitTorrentFS
4. 4:50YouTubeFS
5. 6:10GitFS

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