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The Minix FileSystem was the file system used by [Minix], and was described in "Operating Systems: Their design and implementation" by AndrewTannenbaum. |
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The Minix file system had a number of limitations: |
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* It couldn't address partitions larger than 64mb |
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* It had a maximum limit of 32 chars on filenames |
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* etc |
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The Minix File system was used a lot on floppies where it's overhead was low. It's design also leant itself to being a file within the FileSystem of the host OperatingSystem when Minix was run as a process within another OperatingSystem. |
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