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Developer's Guide for Migrating to Oracle Solaris 11

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Updated: April 2020
 
 

File Systems in Oracle Solaris

The file systems that are supported by Oracle Solaris 11 are as follows:

  • Disk-based file systems: HSFS, PCFS, UDFS, UFS, and ZFS

  • Network-based file systems: NFS and SMB

  • Virtual file systems: CTFS, FIFOFS, MNTFS, NAMEFS, OBJFS, SHAREFS, SPECFS, and SWAPFS

  • Temporary file system (TMPFS)

  • Loopback file system (LOFS)

  • Process file system (PROCFS)

UFS is a legacy file system, but it is not supported as a bootable root file system. ZFS is the default root file system. For more information about ZFS file systems in Oracle Solaris, see the Data Management web page and Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11.3.