Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 16), Alex Zbyslaw said: UFS2 expanded some fields from 32 bits to 64, and added or changed a few features, but the two are still very similar. UFS2 also added snapshots which make live dumps safer, among other things. Snapshots work j

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 16), Alex Zbyslaw said: > Glenn Dawson wrote: > >Even if there were, if the file systems you are using now are > >working, there isn't much reason to change them. > > > >UFS2 expanded some fields from 32 bits to 64, and added or changed a > >few features, but the two are st

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Glenn Dawson wrote: Even if there were, if the file systems you are using now are working, there isn't much reason to change them. UFS2 expanded some fields from 32 bits to 64, and added or changed a few features, but the two are still very similar. UFS2 also added snapshots which make live

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-13 Thread RW
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 bei

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-12 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
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 syst

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:44 PM 8/11/2005, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have a small FreeBSD machine at home used as a file server and a > >gateway to the Internet. Currently when a new version of FreeBSD is > >released (and I have enough time), I copy

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:44 PM 8/11/2005, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: Hello, I have a small FreeBSD machine at home used as a file server and a gateway to the Internet. Currently when a new version of FreeBSD is released (and I have enough time), I copy all the data to another machine, reinstall FreeBSD from scratch, a

differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-11 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
Hello, I have a small FreeBSD machine at home used as a file server and a gateway to the Internet. Currently when a new version of FreeBSD is released (and I have enough time), I copy all the data to another machine, reinstall FreeBSD from scratch, and copy the data back. I just realized that I pr