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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: BSD filesystems? Xenix FS? X11 on hercules screen?
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- References: <BxzKHG.I30@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.194854.22231@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:48:54 GMT
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- Eric Youngdale (eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
-
- : BSD: no. Xenix: yes, there is a filesystem. I have toyed with the
- : idea of writing a filesystem for linux that would understand a BSD ufs
- : filesystem but the differences are so great between the bsd VFS layer and the
- : linux VFS layer that it would be easier to hack the minix filesystem to
- : understand ufs than to try and port the ufs filesystem. I have not decided if
- : I want to do this or not.
-
- It would be very helpful for those of us who would like to run dual environments
- - Linux and 386BSD, booting off one or the other as the need arises. I've been
- planning this for some time now, because I want to do some benchmarking
- between Linux and 386BSD. They both have distinct advantages - Linux is more
- of a "hacker's OS", and developments will come at a more rapid pace, but
- 386BSD is more like SunOS, where most of my living comes from (no one will
- pay me for hacking on Linux - yet, but they *do* pay very well for hacking on
- SunOS :)).
-
- I'd like to mount my 386BSD drive from Linux (or vice-versa, which is why this
- is cross-posted), snarf off the 0.1 distribution (so I won't have to load
- 386BSD onto floppies, yuck), and then install from a hard drive.
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- "There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You're already enlightened, and
- all the words in the world won't give you what you already have. The wise
- seeker, therefore, is concerned with one thing only: to become aware of what
- he already is, of the True Self within." -- Zen maxim
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- "There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You're already enlightened, and
- all the words in the world won't give you what you already have. The wise
-