From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 15:45:21 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 CDE4137B401 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from community.interfree.it (community.interfree.it [213.158.72.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 626C243FBD for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it) Received: (qmail 14726 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2003 22:45:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO linux) (80.104.111.132) by mail.interfree.it with SMTP; 25 Apr 2003 22:45:18 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: ".VWV." To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:45:55 -0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200304250203.28738.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> <3EA9B589.AAD7A527@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA9B589.AAD7A527@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200304252345.55600.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> Subject: Re: 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 22:45:22 -0000 On Friday 25 April 2003 21:24, you wrote: > ".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 thi= nk > > 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 Lin= ux, > > 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 It's horrible, we could fear we have no Gods any more... I'll never move = from=20 ufs or from an hypothetical future 'son'. I have been really tried by=20 not-properly-unix experiments. =2EVWV.