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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 28 Nov 1995 17:40:15 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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In article <49csi3$1qo@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>,
Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>On this topic,
>I don't understand why neither Linux nor FreeBSD
>seem to have organised a common file system --
>is it jealousy, or is there some reason why
>it is harder to organise things so that 
>one can mount a FreeBSD file system under Linux
>than to do the same for a DOS file system?

Very few people in the past have run both OS's at the same time, since
keeping up with the development of one is difficult enough.

Second of all, both camps feel that their file-system is superior to the
FS of the other camp.

However, John Dyson recently imported his port of the Ext2FS to FreeBSD
into the FreeBSD-current tree, so you should be able to mount Linux FS's
under FreeBSD now.


Nate
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