MOUNT_LFS(8) | System Manager's Manual | MOUNT_LFS(8) |
mount_lfs
— mount
a log-structured file system
mount_lfs |
[-bdins ] [-N
nsegs] [-o
options] special
node |
The mount_lfs
command attaches a
log-structured file system special device on to the
file system tree at the point node. Both
special and node are converted
to absolute paths before use. In addition, the
lfs_cleanerd(8) utility
is invoked to clean the file system periodically.
This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time.
The options are as follows:
-b
-d
-i
-o
-o
flag followed by a
comma separated string of options. See the
mount(8) man page for
possible options and their meanings.-N
nsegs-b
is also specified) at a time.-n
-s
mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), dump_lfs(8), lfs_cleanerd(8), mount(8), newfs_lfs(8)
Ousterhout and Douglis, Beating the I/O Bottleneck: A Case for Log-structured File Systems, Operating Systems Review, No. 1, Vol. 23, pp. 11-27, 1989, also available as Technical Report UCB/CSD 88/467.
Rosenblum and Ousterhout, The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, No. 5, Vol. 25, 1991.
Seltzer, File System Performance and Transaction Support, PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1992, also available as Technical Report UCB/ERL M92.
Seltzer, Bostic, McKusick and Staelin, An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX, Proc. of the Winter 1993 USENIX Conf., pp. 315-331, 1993.
The mount_lfs
function first appeared in
4.4BSD.
March 31, 2005 | NetBSD 10.99 |