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. But I agree there's no reason based on current evidence to do this. Thanks. Robert Huff _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"