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From: johnsos@holmes.ece.orst.edu (Scott Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 3 Dec 1995 21:41:32 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Corvallis
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References: <m2zqdjdegw.fsf@lily.sirius.com> <49do3p$hkf@pixar.com> <49jrgt$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> <MICHAELV.95Dec2013541@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.95Dec2013541@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>In article <49jrgt$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>
>   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.
>
>I would put it a different way.  The filesystem used in NetBSD and
>FreeBSD existed long before Linux was even an idea.  That the Linux
>camp decided to invent their own filesystem, and then not even try to
>make the more common BSD UFS an option, is no fault of the BSD folks.


Speaking of which, how is the UFS port to Linux coming?  I know someone is
working on it, but I haven't heard how it is coming.  Also, is anyone working
on the BSD-like NeXT filesystem?


So many filesystems, so little time.

/sj/


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