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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,alt.solaris.x86,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD and Solaris's UFS (and FFS) compatable? Date: 9 Jul 1996 06:55:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4rsvot$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ZYCHEN.96Jul3115400@sol19.cs.wisc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:74349 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23126 comp.os.linux.misc:115125 zychen@sol19.cs.wisc.edu (Zeyu Chen) wrote: > Does anyone know the exact difference between Solaris/x86's UFS and FFS and > FreeBSD's UFS and FFS? Is it possible to install one OS over the filesystems > created by the other one? What about Linux's UFS module? Which filesystem > does it support? FreeBSD's UFS == FreeBSD's FFS. FFS is the historical Berkeley name (Berkeley Fast Filesystem), while USL adopted the FFS for SVR4, and decided to call it UFS (UNIX File System). Slowaris' UFS suffers from the incompatibilities that have been introduced in order to support ACLs, and somebody on the mailing lists reported that they are now incompatible enough so they cannot be shared anymore, not even read/only. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)