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block device

noun

Definitions

  1. An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is…

    An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.

    • The network block device is a block device offered by Linux. It behaves as a normal block device that can be formatted with any block-based file system and mounted for use.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for block device. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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