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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!mrvm.its.uct.ac.za!murray 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <murray.5.2D632152@its.uct.ac.za> References: <sysdeb.761348742@pandora> <JKH.94Feb16055909@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2jv3ll$3e6@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: mrvm.its.uct.ac.za 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 -- Mark Murray (ITS/MURRAY) \+/ Internet: murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za User support services +X+ Voice: +27 21 650 3025 Information Technology Services, /+\ This .sig is umop ap!sdn University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa