A `file' is used in this document to refer to a contiguous stream of data. In POSIX terms, a `file' refers to the data content of an inode, as opposed to the other attributes or names linked to the inode.
The term `file' is distinct from other strings of binary data in that a `file' in fakefs may be very large, possibly much larger than 2 gigabytes (the traditional file-size limit on filesystems implemented on 32-bit host machines).