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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=
=20
> 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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