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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--vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= =20 > servers still run 4.x is that 5.x got a bad reputation and there really= =20 > is no upgrade path from 4.x to 6.x. 5 and 6 default to using UFS2 and 4= =20 > uses UFS so, IMHO it's better to rebuild and taking a few hundred users= =20 > 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 --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEKa1qWry0BWjoQKURAqfcAKCPZYY95JUwgnXchS0sL86UCS/eFQCfQTOm sBhRNczDXM0QC52WFXo88JE= =2m1E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko--
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