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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] Can (Free & Net)BSD mount each others filesystems? Date: 18 Feb 1994 21:33:45 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2k3c7p$f5j@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <sysdeb.761348742@pandora> <JKH.94Feb16055909@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2jv3ll$3e6@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2jv3ll$3e6@lucy.ee.und.ac.za>, Alan Barrett <barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> wrote: >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. This is an option on all Net/2 derived systems that can be added to FreeBSD as it was in NetBSD as options FASTLINKS It's not in the default kernel because it's not backwards compatible and it takes up space in the installs, but adding it to a custom kernel is trivial. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.