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.. _filesystems_tftp:
-TFTP support
-============
+TFTP filesystem
+===============
-barebox has read/write support for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol.
+barebox has read/write support for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP,
+`RFC1350 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1350>`_).
TFTP is not designed as a filesystem. It does not have support for listing
-directories. This means a :ref:`command_ls` to a TFTP-mounted path will show an empty
-directory. Nevertheless, the files are there.
+directories. This means a :ref:`ls <command_ls>` to a TFTP-mounted path will
+show an empty directory. Nevertheless, the files are there.
Example::
mount -t tftp 192.168.23.4 /mnt/tftp
+
+In addition to the TFTP filesystem implementation, barebox does also have a
+:ref:`tftp command <command_tftp>`.