I got into Linux just when the ext fs became a thing. Or maybe it was ext2 already, but in any case, there were a lot of remnants of when it used the Minix file

I got into Linux just when the ext fs became a thing. Or maybe it was ext2 already, but in any case, there were a lot of remnants of when it used the Minix filesystem, which as I recall was limited to 14 characters as well.