On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:11:51 +0000, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
> > I'm in the same boat as you (upgrading a headless 1.6.2 system.) The
> > only reason I'm thinking about re-installing is that I want to use
> > UFS2 on the disks.
> 
> Why? AFAICT the only differences between FFSv1 and FFSv2 are that the
> metadata takes up twice the space on FFSv2, and that newfs is faster on FFSv2.

The only reason I wanted to upgrade to FFSv2 was to get the snapshot
support (which, I believe, gives you more consistent filesystem
backups -- via 'dump'.) If I can get this support with FFSv1, then
maybe I'll just upgrade using build.sh.

> > Does the UFS2 support pulled from FreeBSD include
> > the filesystem snapshot support?
> 
> It didn't, although someone has added fs snapshot support to NetBSD which,
> IIRC, covers UFS1 and UFS2.

Adding snaphot support shouldn't require a newfs, right?

Thanks for the information! If this is the case, you've saved me a lot of work.

-- 
Rich

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