| Developer(s) | Open source community |
|---|---|
| Full name | MINIX file system version 3 |
| Introduced | 1987 with Minix 1.0 |
| Partition IDs | 0x81 (MBR) |
| Features | |
| Dates recorded | last metadata change, last file change, last file access |
| Date resolution | 1s |
| File system permissions | POSIX |
| Transparent compression | No |
| Transparent encryption | No (provided at the block device level) |
| Other | |
| Supported operating systems | Minix 3, Linux, MiNT and HelenOS |
The Minix file system is the native file system of the Minix operating system. It was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s and aimed to replicate the structure of the Unix File System while omitting complex features, and was intended to be a teaching aid. It largely fell out of favour among Linux users by 1994 due to the popularity of other filesystems - most notably ext2 - and its lack of features, including limited partition sizes and filename length limits.