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by trasz 1775 days ago
Syscalls are mostly the same, but indeed, the interface between the kernel and the file systems is very different. However, code which implements that interface on the file system is a relatively small part of the whole thing; most of the code should be reusable.

Historical note: FreeBSD used to support XFS; I believe it was ported from Linux.