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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 29 Nov 1995 01:58:42 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) writes:

>However, John Dyson recently imported his port of the Ext2FS to FreeBSD
>into the FreeBSD-current tree, so you should be able to mount Linux FS's
>under FreeBSD now.

Where is this available, please.

And is there any effort in the opposite direction,
to allow FreeBSD filesystems to be mounted under Linux?

I'm surprised that FreeBSD got there first on this one.
Maybe they are beginning to out-smart Linux.


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