Boot File System

BFS
Developer(s)Bell Labs[citation needed]
Full nameBoot File System
Introducedwith UNIX System V
Partition IDs0x63 (MBR)
Structures
Directory contentssingle inode table
File allocation16-bit inodes
Limits
Max filename length14 characters
Other
Supported
operating systems
SVR4, UnixWare[citation needed]

The Boot File System (named BFS on Linux, but BFS also refers to the Be File System) was used on UnixWare to store files necessary to its boot process.[1]

It does not support directories, and only allows contiguous allocation for files, to make it simpler to be used by the boot loader.

  1. ^ "UnixWare architecture supports multiplatform interoperability". InfoWorld: 66. 28 June 1993.