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.
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This FS should probably be moved to user space.
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.
