differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

Alex Zbyslaw xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Wed Aug 17 14:09:04 GMT 2005


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 just fine with UFS1.
>
>  
>
Apologies for spreading misinformation.  Snapshots were one of the 
things I was looking forward to after upgrading to 5.X, and since UFS2 
also came with 5.X I guess I assumed the two were related.

--Alex



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