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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
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 18:50:09 +0200
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>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.


Solaris UFS is still compatible with oder versions if you don't use
ACLs, so if you could share them readbefore you should still be able
to do so unless yopu start using ACLs.

BTW, you mispelled Solaris.

Casper
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