On Friday 12 August 2005 18:30, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Dmitry Mityugov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am not sure how safe it is. Is it safe to use a HDD partitioned and > > formatted by one version of FreeBSD with a newer version? I know there > > I recently ran into the problem of not being able to access 5.x file > systems and 5.x backups from a 4.x system. (5.2+ and 4.7 & 4.8, IIRC.)
That's the other way around where, where an old OS can't read a new partition. I don't think a change in filesystem, would ever be made without support for the old version being provided - at very least as a kernel option. For example COMPAT_FREEBSD4 provides access to filesystems created in version 4 and early releases of 5.x, and it's compiled into the 5.4 generic kernel by default. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
