Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:48:45 -0500 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Updating from 5.4-STABLE to 6.0-STABLE Message-ID: <E44445A2-6B51-4F03-855D-C6E0C828488F@gmail.com>
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Hello everyone, I am preparing my system for syncing with 6.0-STABLE and updating it from 5.4-STABLE. In preparation, on the 6.0-RELEASE Announcement page, it lists that some of the changes since 5.4 include: "Significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access layers of the OS. The filesystem is now multithreaded and can take full advantage of multiple CPU systems." This makes it sound as if UFS2 has been updated from 5.4 to 6.0. If this is true, will updating from 5.4 to 6.0 give me these changes or will I have to reformat the drives with the updated UFS2? When FreeBSD 7.0 comes out, I expect it to have the UFS2+Journalling extension that someone worked on for the Google Summer of Code. When this occurs, is there an easy way of updating the filesystems? If there is no easy formatter that leaves the files in-place, what is the recommended method of relocating the files, then reformatting with the updated filesystem, then putting them back (I don't know if tar archives are appropriate for this, or what is recommended). Thank you all for your assistance in answering these questions. If I can get the exact same system from reinstalling 6.0 from scratch or updating from 5.4-STABLE, it would save me a lot of time in recompiling the ~400 Ports I have built for this system to just update. Any commentary on the issue is welcome. I have searched all of the relevant documentation I could find to no avail. If there is information posted somewhere on these topics, referencing me to them would be greatly appreciated. -Anthony
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