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From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Shared FreeBSD/NS 3.3 filesystem possible.
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:53:02 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
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paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) wrote:
> Has anybody out there ever used the same disk/filesystem on both NS and 
> FreeBSD ?
> I have a spare HD I want to put in my PC which has both NS 3.3 and 
> FreeBSD-stable installed on it and I would like to use the disk when 
running
> either OS so I can have a shared home directory . I know both systems can 
> read MS-DOS formatted disk but that is not really an option.
> So the solution would probably involve putting a NS ffs on it and 
> having FreeBSD mount it. Has this been done ???? Or is it time 
> to make my own mods. to FreeBSD ??

No. Write a filesystem LKS for NEXTSTEP. Their fs is terribly slow and ugly 
compared to the fs of NetBSD 1.1. I guess, the fs of FreeBSD is similar to 
the one in NetBSD. 
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