DEADFS(9)

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
insmntque(9), vnode(9), VOP_RECLAIM(9)

HISTORY
UNIX System Manager's Manual (SMM) for 4.4BSD described deadfs as a file system “where rejected vnods go to die”.

AUTHORS
The deadfs manual page was written by Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>.