Configfs

<h2 id="details">Details</h2>
<p>Configfs appears similar to <a href="/facts/Sysfs/YHLFf08v">sysfs</a> but they are in fact different and complementary. Configfs is for creating, managing and destroying <a href="/facts/Kernel_(computer_science)/uEj4U3Rz">kernel</a> objects from <a href="/facts/User-space/0yIzMY8t">user-space</a>, and <a href="/facts/Sysfs/YHLFf08v">sysfs</a> for viewing and manipulating objects from user-space which are created and destroyed by <a href="/facts/Kernel_space/0yIzMY8t">kernel space</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> It is typically mounted at /sys/kernel/config (or more rarely at /config).
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Tmpfs/7WM9xAbs">tmpfs</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sysctl/dNkty2DA">sysctl</a> – an interface for examining and dynamically changing parameters in the BSD and Linux operating systems</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/148987/">Configfs - the API</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/149005/">Documentation/configfs/configfs.txt</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>configfs - Userspace-driven kernel object configuration <a href="http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/" target="_blank">http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Configfs - an introduction <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/148973/" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/Articles/148973/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Configfs