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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
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References: <2gvt5c$dr0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <CGD.94Jan11204734@eden.cs.berkeley.edu>
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In article <CGD.94Jan11204734@eden.cs.berkeley.edu>,
Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <2gvt5c$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