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From: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner 25733)
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
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In article <49t5ic$5o9@engr.orst.edu>,
>Speaking of which, how is the UFS port to Linux coming?  I know someone is
>working on it, but I haven't heard how it is coming.  Also, is anyone working
>on the BSD-like NeXT filesystem?
>
>
>So many filesystems, so little time.
>
>/sj/
>
>


Interoperability is very useful...I had some patches to the linux kernel
to at least understand bsd disk slices...

Is any working on an:
	ext2 driver for freebsd 
	a ffs driver for linux? (there was a ufs driver in alpha I haven't
tried yet).
-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
Member of the League for Programming Freedom