From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 20:04:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8EF1065688 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:04:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847F98FC1D for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:04:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k31so2896645fkk.11 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:04:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=yfYBfeN1y32ORBZOI5y4Sxp3W5mgdj+MlPiquaOyNJ4=; b=n9qE1HxfGXiqgHNTzz0EYBDguRHsyFPNHn3cBSHvOhOjWe8GWALQesNbAg6TukpNAY sXlEp1zArNWUGyrpdSkelFZLP7t9/AlVOTlwYP4KLcq2Z+gP2MpbK7CoZ0CpyrSA4PWr QQlTULSESigf4hERKC+vNB646g0apOAcnila0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=TW+KbkVjmGMo7XXpCqLf1BiCgTumqpPqRjf8oIZEK7DV9lq3M8BUgTbujWEYkTz7Bw Mm9qunuzd7hqJp2nZPufFfM5AdV1YweePbAsgVvsVJuemTVfvdHs4jWSGHFG8kWssOcw AVq+G3/kXIsJYGXn6eY/R+tgB4iXlJSH29yCQ= Received: by 10.180.204.10 with SMTP id b10mr1829697bkg.201.1226261056951; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.134.5 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:04:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <28283d910811091204q4bd19cc7u615f317bd519bac3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:04:16 -0500 From: "matt donovan" To: "Erik Trulsson" In-Reply-To: <20081109195554.GB90867@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <50261.1226194851@people.net.au> <20081109152835.N49145@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <18711.2431.464472.977892@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081109165314.GA89995@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <18711.12995.251454.988166@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081109195554.GB90867@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Robert Huff , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2 limits X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:04:19 -0000 On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:58:11PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > Erik Trulsson writes: > > > > > > Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion): > > > > If there any technical reason that couldn't be expanded to 32 > > > > bits? Or is it possible but not done for historical or > > > > policy reasons, and if so what are they? > > > > > > It probably could be expanded to 32 bits if that was deemed > > > useful. Doing that would of course require re-creating any > > > existing filesystems since the on-disk format would change, which > > > would be a PITA for users, but certainly possible. > > > > I seem to remember at least one case (3.x -> 4.0 ????) where a > > major version change had no upgrade path - to get the new stuff you > > had to reinstall. > > You are probably thinking of the 4.x -> 5.x upgrade where you pretty much > had to reinstall if you wanted to switch from UFS1 to UFS2. (But you could > of course keep using UFS1 if you wanted.) > > > But I agree there's no reason based on current evidence to do > > this. > > Thanks. > > > > > > Robert Huff > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Kind of hard to get XFS in freeBSD with it being a "dead" filesystem that is no longer being developed, probably to port it it would need a lot of code changes.