blkdev

- generic block device driver

Description

The blkdev module provides support services for generic block devices. See sd(7D)

Device Special Files

Disk block special file names are located in /dev/dsk. Raw file names are located in /dev/rdsk. See sd(7D).

ioctls

See dkio(7I).

Files

Device special files for the storage device are created in the same way as those for a SCSI disk. See sd(7D) for more information.

/dev/dsk/cntndnsn

Block files for disks.

/dev/rdsk/cntndnsn

Raw files for disks.

/kernel/drv/amd64/blkdev

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86)

/kernel/drv/sparcv9/blkdev

64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC)

Attributes

See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

See Also

eject(1), rmformat(1), rmmount(1), fdisk(1M), mount(1M), umount(1M), vfstab(4), attributes(5), dkio(7I), pcfs(7FS), sd(7D)