Книга: Free Special Purpose File Systems: Fat Filesystem and Linux, Plumber, Lustre, Encfs, Filesystem in Userspace, Sshfs, Unionfs, Davfs2, Sysfs

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Fat Filesystem and Linux, Plumber, Lustre, Encfs, Filesystem in Userspace, Sshfs, Unionfs, Davfs2, Sysfs, Jffs2, Squashfs, Binfmt Misc, Ubifs, Gmailfs, Cdfs, Aufs, Stegfs, Cramfs, Axfs, Curlftpfs, Wikifs, Configfs, Romfs, Archivemount, Lnfs, V9fs. Excerpt: AXFS (Advanced XIP Filesystem) is a compressed read-only file system for Linux . Designed to utilize XIP alongside compression to reduce boot and load times whilst retaining a small footprint for embedded devices . AXFS is free software (licensed under the GPL ). See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at archivemount is a FUSE based file system for Unix variants, including Linux. Its purpose is to mount archives (i.e. tar, tar.gz, etc.) to a mount point where it can be read from or written to as with any other file system. This makes accessing the contents of the archive, which may be compressed, transparent to other programs, without decompressing them. See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Aufs (AnotherUnionFS) is an alternative version of UnionFS , a filesystem service which implements a union mount for Linux file systems . It has been developed by Junjiro Okajima since early 2006 . It is a complete rewriting of UnionFS, with the aim of improving reliability and performance. It has also introduced some new concepts, like writable branch balancing, and many improvements . Some of these new ideas have been re-implemented in the UnionFS 2.x branch. Aufs has been chosen as a replacement for UnionFS by the Knoppix live CD Linux distribution since the end of 2006, 'for better stability