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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:48:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@blaise.ibp.fr>, FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 2.05A 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950601204700.7037B-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <25051.802039286@freefall.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > 	Really?  I was told that the 2.05A sources would allow me to 
> > upgrade but I won't get any of the disk optimizations and other things 
> > without doing a full install and I would need to do a full reinstall to 
> > get properly optimized and coverted to the slice code since there will 
> > probably be no backwards compatibility of this in 2.1.  Can anyone 
> > confirm this?  Jordan?  Thanks.
> 
> This is all true.  Please folks, don't mislead people by telling them
> that "upgrades" are a simple matter of holding your left foot in the
> air while extracting the bindist over a system in single user mode
> while "Muskrat Love" is playing on the radio.  Sure, it might _work_
> but whether or not it works 100% is another matter, and WE get to pick
> up the pieces afterwards in the questions list!
> 
> THERE IS NO UPGRADE PATH FROM 2.0R TO 2.0.5!  I'm sorry, I wish there
> was, but there wasn't time to do the work.
> 
> 					Jordan

If this is true, I'm curious just what I'm gaining with the new 
filesystem, besides a new way to refer to partitions.

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