Let us start here, from square one. No, from Zero!

external/layeredfs/config.h

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+#pragma once
+
+namespace layeredfs {
+
+    typedef struct config {
+        bool verbose_logs = false;
+        bool developer_mode = false;
+    } config_t;
+
+    extern config_t config;
+
+    void load_config(void);
+}