BeOS's BFS
Be's original conception for a filesystem was one that included a large number of database features. This concept, though, proved to be too awkward in practice, and so Be developed the Be Filesystem (BFS), which retains some database-style features but for the most part is a fairly conventional filesystem. BFS borrows some features from UNIX filesystems, such as UNIX-style permissions. It shares other features with NTFS and HPFS, such as its support for EAs (known as attributes in BeOS).
BFS's features include the following:
Filenames up to 254 characters in length
Case-sensitive long filenames
Directories stored in a sorted tree structure
Allocation block size of between 1KB and 8KB, configurable at format time
Maximum partition size ...
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