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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!neonlights.uoregon.edu!news.jsums.edu!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!world1.bawave.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.thepoint.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4n5fdh$so@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <4n1t38$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4n2psu$fjp@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:50:09 GMT Lines: 15 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