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1. code is data. Thanks, mr Von Neumann!

2. the implementation of the storage is another level of abstraction away. the filesystem assumes the media it exists on is non-volatile, what exactly that means in implementation is irrelevant. theoretically you could call a traditional spinning disk volatile because i could hit it with a hammer and destroy it.



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