Ask HN: Which is more fundamental: the table or the file?

A page is a file, but it might have been stitched together from values in a table. The table, though, is part of a database, which stores its data ultimately as a files on disk. But those files are part of the filesystem, which is a database of inodes, links, file names, and other tabular data. It goes on. The operating system bootstraps itself while reading files, like fstab. But the data in those files looks awfully tabular. After all, fstab is short for filesystem table. What is at bottom? Which one ultimately contains the other: the table or the file?