On 2005-11-04 11:50, Nathan Vidican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most notably amongst the improvements/additions to 6.0-RELEASE, > are those in the filesystem area. In performing a system > upgrade, does one need to newfs/format a given partition with a > new file system to make use of these optimizations, or is the > bonus simply in the kernel/filesystem support and sticking with > the current UFS2 partition (5.3-RELEASE/amd64) will step-up to it?
The VFS optimizations and improvements in the SMP & locking don't really depend on having a particular file system type, AFAIK, so you shouldn't need to newfs for the performance gains they implement. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
