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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 30 Nov 1995 08:54:53 GMT
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williams@pixar.com (James Williams) writes:

> That the Intel-based 4.4BSD variants have no common filesystem is
inexcusable.

All Intel-based 4.4BSD variants use the same ufs.

You can even mount an SVR4 ufs file system on FreeBSD.  (Perhaps only
read/only now, since it's actually a 4.2BSD ufs, and FreeBSD might
think the clean flag were not set.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)