For anyone dealing with Minix file-systems still for this nearly 40 year old creation, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is expected to bring some fixes to the Minix driver for better handling corrupted file-system images.
Syzbot has uncovered some corruption bugs within the Linux kernel’s Minix file-system driver. When trying to mount and deal with corrupted Minix file-systems, some problems were uncovered that are now being addressed to be able to report said corruption and fixing the underlying bugs detected.
Fuse all the time would not be great for performance …then again…does anyone care with minix?
That’s the idea, minix was a 1980s thing that still has some legacy support.