Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:04:16 -0500 From: "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2 limits Message-ID: <28283d910811091204q4bd19cc7u615f317bd519bac3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081109195554.GB90867@owl.midgard.homeip.net> 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>
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On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>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 > > -- > <Insert your favourite quote here.> > 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.
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