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From: murray@its.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Can (Free & Net)BSD mount each others filesystems?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 07:48:34 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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References: <sysdeb.761348742@pandora> <JKH.94Feb16055909@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2jv3ll$3e6@lucy.ee.und.ac.za>
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In article <2jv3ll$3e6@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett) writes:
>From: barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett)

>In article <JKH.94Feb16055909@whisker.hubbard.ie>,
>jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>> I see no reason why this wouldn't work.

>I would be afraid of a difference in the storage of symlinks.  NetBSD
>can store symlink data in the inode instead of in a data block, and
>I don't know whether FreeBSD will understand that.

FreeBSD has an option to _create_ this type of symlink by default. It
claimt to always _understand_ inode'ed symlinks.

Mark

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