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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
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References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <4n1t38$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4n2psu$fjp@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:50:09 GMT
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In article <4n2psu$fjp@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>
>I'm sorry you didn't understand what I was trying to say. 
>Linux people have found it useful to have the BSD UFS filesystem
>usable under Linux.  Therefore, they incorporated the code.  
>On the other hand, no one in the Linux community has found it useful
>to be able to run *BSD binaries, so support hasn't been added.  If
>someone finds running *BSD binaries useful, then someone will work
>on the support.
>
Does Linux have read/write support for UFS/FFS like FreeBSD does have
for EXT2FS?

John