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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:40:58 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Tom Grove <freebsd@voidmain.net>
Cc:        Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?
Message-ID:  <20060328214058.GB2682@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4429A049.8080100@voidmain.net>
References:  <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> <4429A049.8080100@voidmain.net>

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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:44:57PM -0500, Tom Grove wrote:

> I would certainly recommend going with 6.x.  The reason that many of our=
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> servers still run 4.x is that 5.x got a bad reputation and there really=
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> is no upgrade path from 4.x to 6.x.  5 and 6 default to using UFS2 and 4=
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> uses UFS so, IMHO it's better to rebuild and taking a few hundred users=
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> offline for a couple of hours whilst this happens isn't fun.

FYI, there's no reason you need to switch to UFS2 to run 6.

Kris

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