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     TINYFS(3)                                               TINYFS(3)

     NAME
          tinyfs - file system for miniscule devices

     SYNOPSIS
          bind -c #Fname /nvfs

     DESCRIPTION
          Tinyfs provides file system access to the contents of low-
          capacity devices, ranging from several hundred bytes (at
          least 144 bytes) to at most the order of a kilobyte.  It is
          provided to support file system access to small non-volatile
          memories, as for instance are found in some real-time clock
          chips, where IDs, keys, PINs, certificates and the like
          might be stored by either client or server.

          The file system has only one directory, its root, which can
          contain only files.  Once created, a write can only append
          to a file; random updates are not allowed, although the file
          could be truncated and rewritten.

          The device specifier following the #F device name is the
          name of a file in /dev on which the tiny file system will
          live.  For instance, #Fnvram refers to /dev/nvram.  The
          device must allow seek and write.  During the attach, the
          system scans the device, checking the file system structure
          by building a table of files, and checking a checksum stored
          in each block; inconsistent structure is reinitialised, and
          thus a previously unused device will emerge correctly for-
          matted as an empty tiny file system.

     FILES
          /nvfs  conventional mount point used by init(8)

     SOURCE
          /os/port/devtinyfs.c