Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:19:52 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Bashar <big@kuwaitnet.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible? Message-ID: <20050707211952.GD19953@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050707180245.U940@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050707134652.Y940@ganymede.hub.org> <005701c58322$4fffad50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20050707180245.U940@ganymede.hub.org>
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--11Y7aswkeuHtSBEs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:03:34PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >=20 > > > >Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is=20 > >possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirabl= e? >=20 > The only thought/concern I have ... didn't the file system format change= =20 > in 5.x? I realize 5.x would be backwards compatible with 4.x, but=20 > wouldn't going from 4.x -> 5.x via cvsup lose out on any new features as = a=20 > result of the file system changes? You will not gain any of the advantages of UFS2 if you don't install from scratch, but if the system is otherwise working, you probably aren't in desperate need of those features. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --11Y7aswkeuHtSBEs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCzZx3XY6L6fI4GtQRAsouAJ4hWXWs0in1bLMRXrfTTNi1VSD9hgCg4tTS FZb3nOIB5gGxdGg7+hBvMUk= =Nmos -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --11Y7aswkeuHtSBEs--
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