Be File System

Be File System
BFS
Developer Be Inc.
Full name Be File System
Introduced May 10, 1997 (BeOS Advanced Access Preview Release[1])
Partition identifier Be_BFS (Apple Partition Map)
0xEB (MBR)
Structures
Directory contents B+ tree
File allocation inodes
Bad blocks inodes
Limits
Max file size ~260 GB *
Max number of files Unlimited
Max filename length 255 characters
Max volume size ~2 EB *
Allowed characters in filenames All UTF-8 but "/"
Features
Dates recorded Access, Creation, Modified
Date range Unknown
Date resolution 1s
Forks Yes
Attributes POSIX ACLs: Read, Write, Execute
File system permissions Yes, POSIX (RWX per owner, group and all)
Transparent compression No
Transparent encryption No
Supported operating systems BeOS, ZETA, Haiku, SkyOS, Syllable

The Be File System (BFS, occasionally misnamed as BeFS — the name BeFS is used in the Linux kernel to avoid any confusion with Boot File System) is the native file system for the BeOS.

BFS was developed by Dominic Giampaolo and Cyril Meurillon over a ten month period, starting in September 1996,[2] to provide BeOS with a modern 64-bit capable journaling file system.[3] It is case sensitive and capable of being used on floppy, hard disks and read-only media such as CD-ROMs, although its use on small removable media is not advised, as the file system headers consume from 600 kB to 2 MB, rendering floppy disks virtually useless.

Like its predecessor, OFS (Old Be File System, written by Benoit Schillings, was also called BFS when current),[4] it includes support for extended file attributes (metadata) with indexing and querying characteristics to provide functionality similar to that of a relational database.

Whilst intended as a 64-bit capable file system, the size of some on-disk structures mean that practical size limit is approximately 2 exabytes. Similarly the extent based file allocation reduces the maximum practical file size to approximately 260 gigabytes at best and as little as a few blocks in a pathological worst case, depending on the degree of fragmentation.

Its design process, application programming interface, and internal workings are, for the most part, documented in the book Practical File System Design with the Be File System.[2]

Contents

Implementations

In addition to the original 1996 BFS used in BeOS, there are several implementations for Linux. In early 1999, Makoto Kato developed a Be File System driver for Linux; however, the driver never reached a complete stable state, so in 2001 Will Dyson developed his own version of the Linux BFS driver.[5]

As part of the OpenBeOS attempt (now Haiku) to recreate the BeOS operating system, in 2002 Axel Dörfler and a few other developers created and released a reimplemented BFS called OpenBFS.[6] In January 2004, Robert Szeleney announced that he had developed a fork of this OpenBFS file system for use in his SkyOS operating system.[7] The regular OpenBFS implementation was also ported to Syllable and is included since version 0.6.5.

See also

References

  1. ^ Scot Hacker (1997-07-01). "BeOS Journal 10: A First Look at DR9". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 1999-10-02. http://web.archive.org/web/19991002123347/http://www.zdnet.com/products/osuser/boj/hacker10.html. Retrieved 2007-03-22. 
  2. ^ a b Giampaolo, Dominic (1999) (PDF). Practical File System Design with the Be File System. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-497-9. http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf. 
  3. ^ Andrew Orlowski (2002-03-29). "Windows on a database – sliced and diced by BeOS vets". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/29/windows_on_a_database_sliced/. Retrieved 2006-12-09. 
  4. ^ Henry Bortman. "Benoît Schillings, Software Engineer". The BeOS Bible. http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/bible/bos/int_schillings.html. Retrieved 2006-09-10. 
  5. ^ Will Dyson (2002). "BeFS driver for Linux: About BeFS". SourceForge. http://befs-driver.sourceforge.net/about.php. Retrieved 2006-12-09. 
  6. ^ Daniel Teixeira (2002-09-04). "OBFS Reaches Beta". Haiku News. Archived from the original on 2006-10-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20061004111533/http://haikunews.org/482. Retrieved 2006-12-09. 
  7. ^ Robert Szeleney (2004-01-23). "Update". skyos.org. http://www.skyos.org/?q=node/210. Retrieved 2006-12-09. 

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