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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=[[InfoworldInfoWorld]]
|date=28 June 1993
|page=66
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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 Linux kernel implementation of BFS was written by Tigran Aivazian and it became part of the standard kernel sources on 28th28 October 1999 (Linux version 2.3.25).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/iBCS/bfs/ | title=Linux Implementation of SCO UnixWare BFS | author=Tigran Aivazian | date=1999 | publisher=Tigran Aivazian | accessdate=2018-06-14 }}</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 neededClarify|date=October 2015}} (System V) Filesystem written using VFS ([[virtual file system|Virtual Filesystem]]) for AT&T UNIX.
 
==References==