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Currently, the mkstream command creates a json file with the stream source and type. The mount.stream command then reads the json file and creates a custom stream implementation according to the type field.

New proposed implementation:

• Create a new built-in named stream entry type in jsfs.
• mkstream creates entries of this new type
• mount.stream merely opens the named stream entry, pass it to a new StubFileSystem instance and mounts that instance to a file system in the file system manager.

Note we have to define the behavior of these new named stream entries

• Only supported in jsfs
• Show a special entries in ls
• Reading from a stream (e.g. cat) would provide the data from the stream peer
• Writing to the stream would send data to the peer
• Anything else?