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While this is not actually a notion in the implementation, it is
explicitly described in the thesis and quite important for understanding
how the store works.

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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[store path]: #gloss-store-path
- [file system object]{#gloss-store-object}\
The Nix data model for representing simplified file system data.
See [File System Object](@docroot@/architecture/file-system-object.md) for details.
[file system object]: #gloss-file-system-object
- [store object]{#gloss-store-object}\
A file that is an immediate child of the Nix store directory. These
can be regular files, but also entire directory trees. Store objects
can be sources (objects copied from outside of the store),
derivation outputs (objects produced by running a build task), or
derivations (files describing a build task).
A store object consists of a [file system object], [reference]s to other store objects, and other metadata.
It can be referred to by a [store path].
[store object]: #gloss-store-object