block device

block device

English

Noun

block device (plural block devices)

  1. (computing, Unix) An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.
    Coordinate term: character device
    • 2016, Joel Reardon, Secure Data Deletion, Springer, →ISBN, page 137:
      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.

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