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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!wetware!wsrcc.com!news.orst.edu!engr.orst.edu!holmes.ece.orst.edu!johnsos From: johnsos@holmes.ece.orst.edu (Scott Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine? Date: 3 Dec 1995 21:41:32 GMT Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Corvallis Lines: 31 Message-ID: <49t5ic$5o9@engr.orst.edu> References: <m2zqdjdegw.fsf@lily.sirius.com> <49do3p$hkf@pixar.com> <49jrgt$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> <MICHAELV.95Dec2013541@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: holmes.ece.orst.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:74946 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10189 In article <MICHAELV.95Dec2013541@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <49jrgt$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > williams@pixar.com (James Williams) writes: > > > That the Intel-based 4.4BSD variants have no common filesystem is > > inexcusable. > > All Intel-based 4.4BSD variants use the same ufs. > >I would put it a different way. The filesystem used in NetBSD and >FreeBSD existed long before Linux was even an idea. That the Linux >camp decided to invent their own filesystem, and then not even try to >make the more common BSD UFS an option, is no fault of the BSD folks. 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/ Scott Johnson: S/W Engineer, Linux Kernel Hacker, and All-Around Computer Geek. Check out my new (but unfinished) Web page--http://www.ece.orst.edu/~johnsos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Real men don't use .sigs