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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Date: 12 Jan 1994 23:54:47 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2h2k6n$6in@panix.com> References: <2gvt5c$dr0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <CGD.94Jan11204734@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com In article <CGD.94Jan11204734@eden.cs.berkeley.edu>, Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >In article <2gvt5c$dr0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> douzzer@PIRANHA.LCS.MIT.EDU (Daniel G. Pouzzner) writes: >>i think, and someone correct me if i'm wrong, but >>4.3network2 is almost identical to 4.4bsd. maybe we can consider it a >>de facto 4.4bsd-lite? > >"Not even close" in a lot of ways... > >*lots* of FS changes, including additions/reorganizations/improvements. >LFS is added, NFS is improved to become NQNFS, and a whole lot ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Still can't understand why nobody can have the VFS module implementation of LFS to hack at. LFS is clearly a product of the Sprite project, and Berkeley has no problem distributing Sprite -- yes, I know LFS won't run without major buffer-cache hacking -- but why oughtn't we be able to start such stuff? Oh well. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud