how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?

Palle Girgensohn girgen at pingpong.net
Thu Dec 30 10:32:23 PST 2004



--On torsdag, december 30, 2004 20.36.56 +0300 Igor Pokrovsky 
<ip at doom.homeunix.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:38:23PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote:
>> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>>
>> > I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the
>> > latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports
>> > and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way...
>> >
>>
>> That's not so bad.  A reinstall means you can newfs your partitions as
>> UFS2 filesystems, which wouldn't be the case if you upgraded 4.10
>> in-place.
>
> Are there any other advantages of UFS2 over UFS except maximum disk size?

acl -- access control lists
mac -- Mandatory Access Control

haven't used them yet, though.

/Palle



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