On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:45:24 -0600,
"Warren Postma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone got any opinions on the Minix filesystem? Is the minix
>filesystem code stable? How well does fsck work on Minix filesystems?
Minix was the original Linux file system. It has a smaller disk
overhead than ext2, which is especially important for small filesystems
like floppy or embedded. You can get about 5-8% more data in a minix
system compared to ext2.
The downside is filenames are limited to 14 or 30 characters, depending
on which version of minix you use. Also if the superblock is destroyed
on a minix fs then you have no recovery, ext2 has multiple copies of
the superblock.
I'm not sure that minix is still being maintained on 2.2/2.3 but it
definitely worked well on the 2.0.x kernels.
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