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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.<ref >{{Cite journal

|title=UnixWare architecture supports multiplatform interoperability

|journal=[[Infoworld]]

|date=28 June 1993

|page=66

}}</ref>

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

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He documented the file system layout as part of the process.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://martin.hinner.info/fs/bfs/bfs-structure.html | title=The BFS filesystem structure | author=Martin Hinner | date=1999 | publisher=Martin Hinner | accessdate=2008-12-21 }}</ref>

The original BFS was written at AT&T Bell Laboratories for the [[UNIX System V]], [[SVR4|Version 4.0]] porting base in 1986.{{Citation needed|date=October 2015}} It was written by Ron Schnell, who is also the author of [[Dunnet (game)]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2015}}

BFS was the first non-S5{{Clarification needed|date=October 2015}} (System V) Filesystem written using VFS ([[virtual file system|Virtual Filesystem]]) for AT&T UNIX.