Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem)

Re:Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) by lordleft on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:34PM (#23531178)

I feel like Minix is underappreciated. I'm reading Tannenbaum's Modern Operating Systems at the moment and he makes a persuasive appeal for some of its unique takes of the *nix OS family.

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Re:Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) by pavehawk2007 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:37PM (#23531210)

Minix 3 has taken on a life of its own and is maintained here: https://minix3.org/

I had trouble finding really good documentation on the filesystem itself, so it took a bit of trial-and-error to figure out the structure.

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Re:Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) by sillywalk on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:25PM (#23534260)

From the website, it looks like development stopped in 2016.

I read some of the papers on Minix3, and the Loris storage stack. From the bits I understood, it looks pretty interesting.

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Re:Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) by lordleft on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:41PM (#23531269)

You're doing impressive work! Thank you for writing this up and sharing your progress!

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Re:Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) by pavehawk2007 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:48PM (#23531362)

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words.

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Re:Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) by abawany on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:55PM (#23534445)

It is a really good book and I credit it for saving me when I took an undergraduate class in operating systems a long time ago: the book chosen for the course was mostly incomprehensible to me but reading Tannenbaum's tome was eye opening and insightful. Edit: spelling.

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