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Igor Pokrovsky wrote this message on Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 20:36 +0300:
> > 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?

faster fsck times due to not all inodes are allocated at fs creation
time...

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