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author | Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net> | 2022-02-26 16:40:47 -0600 |
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committer | Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net> | 2022-03-10 01:14:35 -0600 |
commit | bbf215553c7233fbab8a0afdf1fac74c44781867 (patch) | |
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14443 resection manual pages per IPD4
Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>
Reviewed by: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/usr/src/man/man4fs/dev.4fs b/usr/src/man/man4fs/dev.4fs new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..08f9ecc902 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/src/man/man4fs/dev.4fs @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved +.\" Copyright 2021 Oxide Computer Company +.\" +.\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the +.\" Common Development and Distribution License (the "License"). +.\" You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. +.\" +.\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE +.\" or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing. +.\" See the License for the specific language governing permissions +.\" and limitations under the License. +.\" +.\" When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each +.\" file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE. +.\" If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the +.\" fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying +.\" information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] +.\" +.Dd November 29, 2021 +.Dt DEV 4FS +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm dev +.Nd Device name file system +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +filesystem manages the name spaces of devices in the operating system. +The global zone's instance of the +.Nm +filesystem is mounted during boot on +.Pa /dev . +This filesystem is colloqiually called +.Sq sdev +as a way to distinguish it from the +.Xr devfs 4FS +filesystem mounted at +.Pa /devices . +.Pp +A subdirectory under +.Pa /dev +may have unique operational semantics. +Most of the common device names under +.Pa /dev +are created automatically by +.Xr devfsadm 8 +Others, such as +.Pa /dev/pts , +.Pa /dev/net , +and +.Pa /dev/zvol +are dynamic and reflect the operational state of the system. +You can manually generate device names for newly attached hardware by invoking +.Xr devfsadm 8 +or implicitly, by indirectly causing a lookup or readdir operation in the +filesystem to occur. +For example, you can discover a disk that was attached when the system was +powered down (and generate a name for that device) by invoking +.Xr format 8 . +.Pp +In a non-global zone, the +.Nm +filesystem is also mounted at +.Pa /dev ; +however, it is generally speaking read-only. +Unlike in the global zone, a privileged user in a non-global zone cannot create +directories or files, directories, or other objects within the filesystem. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width Pa +.It Pa /dev +Mount point for the +.Nm +filesystem in the global zone and non-global zones. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr devfs 4FS , +.Xr devfsadm 8 , +.Xr format 8 +.Sh NOTES +The global +.Pa /dev +instance cannot be unmounted. |