Device file (redirect from Devfs)
dedicated file system devfs; device nodes are managed automatically by this file system, in kernel space. Linux used to have a similar devfs implementation,...
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filesystem. While devfs was a step forward, it had several disadvantages of its own. Since version 2.5 of the Linux kernel, devfs has been succeeded...
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DragonFly BSD (section devfs)
default file system. In 2007 DragonFly BSD received a new device file system (devfs), which dynamically adds and removes device nodes, allows accessing devices...
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system. Although devfs used to provide similar functionality, Greg Kroah-Hartman cited a number of reasons for preferring udev over devfs: udev supports...
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systems, and to a lesser extent in other operating systems. Examples include: devfs, udev, TOPS-10 expose I/O devices or pseudo-devices as special files configfs...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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implemented as a character device driver. All communication between processes take place over special character device nodes in /dev/kdbus (cf. devfs)....
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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Daemons, File systems bpffs configfs devfs devpts debugfs FUSE hugetlbfs pipefs procfs securityfs sockfs sysfs tmpfs systemd udev Kmscon binfmt_misc Wrapper...
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virtualisation chroot jail vkernel File systems, storage AHCI NCQ autofs devfs disklabel fdisk HAMMER HAMMER2 LVM2 NFS NTFS NVMe procfs PUFFS tmpfs UFS...
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its quite comprehensive configuration: manages the special file system devfs mounted to /dev, hence systemd-udevd dynamically creates and removes device...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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storage densities Venti – Plan 9 de-duplicated storage used by Fossil. devfs – a virtual file system in Unix-like operating systems for managing device...
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Control imported from TrustedBSD, background fsck, Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, devfs, UFS2 support, support for Universal Disk Format, drivers for Direct Rendering...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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virtualisation chroot jail vkernel File systems, storage AHCI NCQ autofs devfs disklabel fdisk HAMMER HAMMER2 LVM2 NFS NTFS NVMe procfs PUFFS tmpfs UFS...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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virtualisation chroot jail vkernel File systems, storage AHCI NCQ autofs devfs disklabel fdisk HAMMER HAMMER2 LVM2 NFS NTFS NVMe procfs PUFFS tmpfs UFS...
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virtualisation chroot jail vkernel File systems, storage AHCI NCQ autofs devfs disklabel fdisk HAMMER HAMMER2 LVM2 NFS NTFS NVMe procfs PUFFS tmpfs UFS...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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FUSE Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS Pseudo configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS...
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