Talk:MINIX file system
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[edit]I don't see any mention of the different versions of the MINIX filesystem. The second edition of Tanenbaum's book describes V1 and V2, which differ at least by their inodes and magic numbers.
Phil56 (talk) 19:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
The infobox indicates the relevant version of MINIX 3.1.2, which uses version 3 of the MINIX file system. This topic should either be changed to MINIX file system V3, or it should include info on all versions (V1, V2, V3). I do not have enough info to include all versions, so am focused on adding more details for V3.
Phil56 (talk) 05:39, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
This article is bothersome to me. The Minix filesystem (IIRC) was a derivative of the S5 file system and not at all like UFS. This discussion gets even more confused when links are followed: UFS is a derivative of FFS from BSD and was introduced to mainstream UNIX by the partnership of Sun and AT&T that lead to System V. S5 was the named descendent of the un-named filesystem of V7. The differences between S5 and UFS were huge, starting with the maximum file name, 14 characters for S5 and 255 for UFS. -- protin -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.232.144.1 (talk) 03:50, 7 May 2014 (UTC)