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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Share partition between Linux and FreeBSD ?
Date: 10 Oct 1995 10:25:25 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <NEWTNews.813260805.14773.jalvarez@sundev.uno.com>,
<jalvarez@uno.com> wrote:
>We added a FreeBSD partition to a Linux system we use for development.
>It looks like we will have to add an additional hard disk for our sources
>and other files. Can Linux and FreeBSD share a user partition (e.g. not a
>root or swap partition) ? If so, what would be the best filesystem type to
>implement this (e.g. mpunt a Linux partition from FreeBSD or a FreeBSD
>partition from Linux) ? Are there any performance problems in doing this ?
As of the time of writing, there are no shared filesystems other than DOS
and CDROM (well, nfs too I guess) but thay aren't very useful..
John Dyson has the linux filesystem running under freeBSD, and as soon as
he checks it in I'm pretty sure it's going to get a solid testing by
lots of people :) There have also been reports of FFS being ported to
linux, but I have no information on this, and haven't
heard anything for a while.. (maybe linus has done it as part of his
DEC-alpha/OSF1 port)
until he does however, FreeBSD and Linux are in separate universes
(he's very close though, Or so I'm told )
julian
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