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From: pezely@cis.udel.edu (Daniel Pezely)
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Subject: Minix reading/writing non-Minix file systems (SunOS?)
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Date: 9 Oct 90 16:03:02 GMT
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Wouldn't it be convienent if machines running Minix, which had a file
system on a SCSI drive, could read Berkeley (or even SunOS) file systems?

First of all, would that be legal?  (Assuming the site had a BSD,
SunOS, AT&T, etc license, of course.)

But more importantly, how difficult would that be to pull off?

It would be nice to be able to just take an external drive off of a
SparcStation and slap it on, say, a 386, then use it and put it back.


OK, for those worried about legalities, how about doing it to read dos
hard disks?  What would the scale of such a task be?

-Cowboy Dan
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