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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:32:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ideas from netbsd
Message-ID:  <199511052232.OAA05433@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <9511052145.AA24092@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Nov 5, 95 10:45:34 pm

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> (part 2)
> 
> i looked a bit into NetBSD and it's sources and got the following
> ideas: 

I've heard some grumbles about NetBSD's setup and we might do worse than
asking them if there is anythign they might do differently if they were
to be doing it again.. Failing that, I see no reason for us to be
different from them, for no reason.

We should also find out what BSDI have done 

> * one thing that looks very intersting is the ccd-driver (concatenated
> disk driver) - using this driver it is possible to realize
[..]
talk to rgrimes@freebsd.org.. he played with this
> 
> * another thing is the COMPAT_FREEBSD option (... and code) - i think
> it would be a good idea to have something similar for NetBSD
> (COMPAT_NETBSD) in FreeBSD - i think it should be relatively easy to
> add (maybe i'm wrong) - if NetBSD 1.1 comes out (it's announced for
> november the 17th) i'll try how good it is and tell you more about it
> (the same for the ccd-driver)
We really need someone who's main project is to catalogue the differences
and help us pull together..

julian



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