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 == API ==
-FileSystem portion of the API:
+=== FileSystem ===
   partial interface Navigator {
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-The proposed API for FileHandle
+=== FileHandle ===
   interface FileHandle {
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   };
+=== DOMRequest ===
-DOMRequest API (Same as IDBRequest, but with the IndexedDB-specific parts removed):
+Same as IDBRequest, but with the IndexedDB-specific parts removed.
   interface DOMRequest {
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     attribute EventHandler onsuccess;
     attribute EventHandler onerror;
+ };
+=== Read-only FileSystem ===
+*If* there's a desire to expose a read-only filesystem in other APIs, it'd look something like this. However this might not at all be needed.
+ interface ReadOnlyDeviceStorage {
+   // Returns the result as a File object
+   DOMRequest get(DOMString name);
+   // The .result property on each success call is set to a File object
+   DeviceStorageCursor enumerate(optional DOMString directory)
+   // The .result property on each success call is either a
+   // { file: File } or { directory: "name" } object
+   DeviceStorageCursor enumerateShallow(optional DOMString directory)
   };