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=== Pseudo file systems === * [[devfs]] β a virtual file system in Unix-like operating systems for managing device nodes on-the-fly * [[procfs]] β a pseudo-file system, used to access kernel information about processes * [[tmpfs]] β in-memory temporary file system (on Unix-like platforms) * [[sysfs]] β a virtual file system in [[Linux kernel|Linux]] holding information about buses, devices, firmware, filesystems, etc. * [[debugfs]] β a virtual file system in [[Linux kernel|Linux]] for accessing and controlling kernel debugging * [[configfs]] β a writable file system used to configure various kernel components of [[Linux kernel|Linux]] * [[sysctlfs]] β allow accessing [[sysctl]] nodes via a file system; available on [[NetBSD]] via PUFFS,<ref>{{cite web |title=mount_sysctlfs(8) |url=https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-8.2/mount_sysctlfs.8 |website=NetBSD Manual Pages |access-date=2021-07-10 |date=2010-04-11}}</ref> [[FreeBSD]] kernel via a 3rd-party module,<ref>{{cite web |author1=Pawel Jakub Dawidek |url=http://garage.freebsd.pl/sysctlfs.README |access-date=2021-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050223085646/http://garage.freebsd.pl/sysctlfs.README |archive-date=2005-02-23 |format=text/plain |date=2002-12-24 |url-status=dead |title=sysctlfs.README}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Pawel Jakub Dawidek |title=Re: Hmm, sysctlfs. |url=https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=104071603827080 |access-date=2021-07-10 |date=2002-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hacking FreeBSD / sysctlfs / [9a7ced] |url=https://sourceforge.net/p/hacking-freebsd/sysctlfs-code/ci/master/tree/ |website=SourceForge |access-date=2021-07-10}}</ref> and [[Linux kernel|Linux]] as a part of Linux procfs.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Terrehon Bowden |author2=Bodo Bauer |author3=Shen Feng |title=Chapter 2: Modifying System Parameters - The /proc Filesystem |url=https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/proc.html#chapter-2-modifying-system-parameters |website=The Linux Kernel |access-date=2021-07-10}}</ref> * [[kernfs (BSD)|kernfs]] β a file system found on some BSD systems (notably [[NetBSD]]) that provides access to some kernel state variables; similar to sysctlfs, Linux procfs and Linux sysfs. * [[WinFS]] - Uses a relational database to manage files * [[wikifs]] β a server application for [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]]'s virtual, [[wiki]], file system
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