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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] Can (Free & Net)BSD mount each others filesystems? Date: 17 Feb 1994 23:21:03 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 19 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Feb17182103@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <sysdeb.761348742@pandora> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: sysdeb@devetir.qld.gov.au's message of Tue, 15 Feb 1994 21:45:42 GMT In article <sysdeb.761348742@pandora> sysdeb@devetir.qld.gov.au (Darren Bock) writes: This may be a trivial thing to do, or Free & Net may have done something like change the ID byte of the FS, or maybe even something a bit more non-trivial. Neither system has diverged from the old 4.2 and 4.3BSD file system in any way that I know, save the addition of `fast symlinks' in NetBSD. (This amounts to storing relatively short symlinks in the inode so they're faster to dereference and don't use a fragment.) I have no idea whether or not FreeBSD has incorporated this code. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.