A Look Back at the BeOS File System

June 29, 2011

BeOS logo Neal Stephenson once wrote that BeOS was the Batmobile of operating systems (Windows was a station wagon, MacOS was a European sports car and Linux was a free army tank). It was created in 1991. In 1997 its legendary file system, BFS was created. Be Inc sold to Palm in 2001, and BeOS was to become the foundation of PalmOS 6, which was never used in a Palm device. However, the ideas beyond BeOS live on Haiku, an open source clone of the OS.

Ars Technica has an interesting retrospective on the BeOS file system, BFS, which is now in use in both Haiku and SkyOS. BFS had many forward looking features, including 64-bit data structures, journaling and metadata support.

Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/e0hX-cF7PKc/a-look-back-at-the-beos-file-s.php

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