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.

Further reading

• block device on Wikipedia.Wikipedia