From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 15:25:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D71237B401 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2D943FE1 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0134.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.134] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 199BdD-0003vr-00; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:25:24 -0700 Message-ID: <3EA9B589.AAD7A527@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:24:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ".VWV." References: <200304250203.28738.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4d2aa6b4c01d34da036e4dd9983bf637193caf27dac41a8fd350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ufs and ext X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:25:26 -0000 ".VWV." wrote: > I have noticed both BSD and Linux pre-compiled kernels cannot mount read-write > the other filesystem. It's a shame that a newbie could think one is able to > read, the other one is able to write. We know ufs was born before ext. Some > Linux distributions has also adopted ReiserFS on Linux, that's really a > not-unix filesystem. Why at PASC nobody has declared what's the best > standard? Everyone has declared their own as being "the best standard", so no one interoperates. 8-). As to defaults, the issue is one of License conflicts. The GPL is poison-pilled against all other licenses, in clause 6. You can, of course, compile your own kernel with whatever code you want in it, in both Linux and BSD, so long as you do not distribute a binary that can't legally be licensed. If you go with the "least common denominator", e.g. FAT32, then both systems can mount the FS read/write, no problem, though that's probably not very satisfying to you. -- Terry