Penguin
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The abstraction of various interfaces as a normal file system that is presented as a "normal" file system to applications.

Examples include using a loopback device to make a single file look like a whole filesystem, or anything that accesses files across a network (for example, NFS, SSH, Samba, etc) and allows local applications to read/write/access files.