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-The Minix file system
was the file system used by [Minix], and was described in "Operating Systems: Their design and implementation".
+The Minix FileSystem
was the file system used by [Minix], and was described in "Operating Systems: Their design and implementation" by AndrewTannenbaum
.
The Minix file system had a number of limitations:
* It couldn't address partitions larger than 64mb
* It had a maximum limit of 32 chars on filenames
-etc
+*
etc
-the
Minix File system was used a lot on floppies where it's overhead was low.
+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
.
