To expand on Colin's point, the files in owfs are created on the fly by the
program. They don't exist on disk. When you "read" a temperature, the
system makes it look like the file contains a number, but actually the
program reads data from the 1-wire bus to get the value.

The UNIX file system needs a place to hang the top of the filesystem,
/mnt/1wire seems to be what you are using. Everything below that is
"virtual" and doesn't exist until the owfs is run. (Actually any real files
below that point are masked over by owfs and would be unmasked when owfs
isn't running -- but that just confuses things).



On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Colin Reese <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just search grey boxes here for what I use for ds9490r and i2c:
>
>
>
> http://www.cupidcontrols.com/2014/01/owfs-owserver-owhttp-owpython-and-a-little-1wire-pi/
>
> C
>
>
> > On Jun 6, 2015, at 6:05 AM, Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Colin, can you point me to any good examples of the use of
> owserver
> > with the USB D9490R interface.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colin Law [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 06 June 2015 11:15
> > To: OWFS (One-wire file system) discussion and help
> > Subject: Re: [Owfs-developers] deleting /mnt/1wire folders and files.
> >
> >> On 6 June 2015 at 11:06, Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Thanks Mick, I had rebooted but when I saw the file /mnt/1wire I
> >> thought the other files would still be there. When I checked all the
> >> subfolders  had magically disappeared. This is good news but a little
> >> alarming that files can disappear when you reboot. I guess pseudo
> >> directories have different properties. Something else I have to learn!
> >
> > They are not real files that actually exist on disc anywhere.  Owfs just
> > uses simulated folders and files to make it easy to access the 1-wire
> data.
> > Personally I find it much simpler and less confusing to use owserver.
> >
> > Colin
> >
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