I think the file is more fundamental. One must know where the file is, where it starts and ends, and how to read it before one can parse the contents (e.g. a ta

I think the file is more fundamental. One must know where the file is, where it starts and ends, and how to read it before one can parse the contents (e.g. a table) within. Physical > Bits > Bytes > Sectors/Blocks > File System > Files > File Content (Tables) One could choose any point in the abstraction and everything else would be relative.