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Re: GNU/Linux, NetBSD and Mac OS X



On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:32:00PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> 
> > The question is, which UFS is Linux' UFS related to?
> 
> As detailed in the link you quoted, the Linux kernel supports old Bell
> Labs UFS, 4.4BSD FFS, a couple flavors of SunOS/Solaris UFS, and three
> flavors of NeXTSTEP UFS.  The UFS filesystem driver requires a mount
> argument "ufstype=" so that it can work with all of these UFS formats.
> 
> I'm curious whether the MacOS X filesystem is closer to the {Net,Open,
> Free}BSD FFS or to the NeXTStep UFS, and in either case whether the Linux
> ufs module will work without modifications.

OpenStep apparently, you must use the mount option ufstype=openstep

that driver is readonly. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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