NAME
deadfs – pseudo-filesystem to own reclaimed vnodes
DESCRIPTION
The deadfs file system implements operations that do not modify any data and instead return indications of invalid IO. Its role is to provide a fallback vnode operations vector for reclaimed vnode(9)'s.
It is a kernel-only pseudo-file system and so cannot be mounted from userspace.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
UNIX System Manager's Manual (SMM) for 4.4BSD described deadfs as a file system “where rejected vnodes go to die”.
AUTHORS
The deadfs manual page was written by Mateusz Piotrowski ⟨[email protected]⟩.