diff --git a/mercurial/localrepo.py b/mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
     pycompat,
     repository,
     repoview,
+    revlogstore,
     revset,
     revsetlang,
     scmutil,
@@ -479,6 +480,8 @@
             else: # standard vfs
                 self.svfs.audit = self._getsvfsward(self.svfs.audit)
         self._applyopenerreqs()
+        self.filesstore = revlogstore.revlogfilesstore(self.svfs)
+
         if create:
             self._writerequirements()
 
diff --git a/mercurial/repository.py b/mercurial/repository.py
--- a/mercurial/repository.py
+++ b/mercurial/repository.py
@@ -266,3 +266,33 @@
 
 class legacypeer(peer, _baselegacywirecommands):
     """peer but with support for legacy wire protocol commands."""
+
+class basefilesstore(object):
+    """Storage interface for repository files data.
+
+    This interface defines mechanisms to access repository files data in a
+    storage agnostic manner. The goal of this interface is to abstract storage
+    implementations so implementation details of storage don't leak into
+    higher-level repository consumers.
+    """
+
+    __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
+
+    def resolvefilesdata(self, entries):
+        """Resolve the fulltext data for an iterable of files.
+
+        Each entry is defined by a 2-tuple of (path, node).
+
+        The method is a generator that emits results as they become available.
+        Each emitted item is a 4-tuple of (result, path, node, data), where
+        the first element can be one of the following to represent the operation
+        result for this request:
+
+        ok
+           Successfully resolved fulltext data. Data field is a bytes-like
+           object.
+        missing
+           Data for this item not found. Data field is ``None``.
+        censored
+           Data for this revision is censored. Data field is ``None``.
+        """
diff --git a/mercurial/revlogstore.py b/mercurial/revlogstore.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mercurial/revlogstore.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# revlogstore.py - storage interface for repositories using revlog storage
+#
+# Copyright 2018 Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
+#
+# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
+# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from . import (
+    error,
+    filelog,
+    repository,
+)
+
+class revlogfilesstore(repository.basefilesstore):
+    """Files storage layer using revlogs for files storage."""
+
+    def __init__(self, svfs):
+        self._svfs = svfs
+
+    def resolvefilesdata(self, entries):
+        for path, node in entries:
+            fl = filelog.filelog(self._svfs, path)
+
+            try:
+                rev = fl.rev(node)
+            except error.LookupError:
+                yield 'missing', path, node, None
+                continue
+
+            if fl.iscensored(rev):
+                yield 'censored', path, node, None
+                continue
+
+            data = fl.read(node)
+            yield 'ok', path, node, data