From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: BSD filesystems? Xenix FS? X11 on hercules screen? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:48:54 GMT
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.