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From: barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Can (Free & Net)BSD mount each others filesystems?
Date: 17 Feb 1994 08:43:01 +0200
Organization: Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <JKH.94Feb16055909@whisker.hubbard.ie>,
jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> I see no reason why this wouldn't work.

I would be afraid of a difference in the storage of symlinks.  NetBSD
can store symlink data in the inode instead of in a data block, and
I don't know whether FreeBSD will understand that.

--apb (Alan Barrett)