From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 15:58:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BE816A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:58:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147D143D1F for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:58:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wilkinsa@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au with ESMTP id j01FvP1A019125 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:27:25 +1030 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.10) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:28:26 +1030 Received: from ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.81]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id j01FrfQ22053; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:23:41 +1030 (CST) Received: from squash.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.40.212]) by ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id YK37P7QF; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:23:39 +1030 Received: from squash.dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squash.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j01FsKqd035131 ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:24:20 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from wilkinsa@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: (from wilkinsa@localhost) by squash.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j01FsJ4Z035130; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:24:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from wilkinsa) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:24:19 +1030 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" To: Palle Girgensohn Message-ID: <20050101155419.GH34509@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mail-Followup-To: Palle Girgensohn , Paul Mather , stable@freebsd.org References: <05F0F09DEB66858D9B452FB8@palle.girgensohn.se> <20041229203601.GD10293@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041229210110.GA16903@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <44633F1A12BF90A756A3AB0F@palle.girgensohn.se> <41D323CF.8070701@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20041230173656.GA2423@doom.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041230173656.GA2423@doom.homeunix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:58:36 -0000 0n Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:36:56PM +0300, Igor Pokrovsky wrote: >On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:38:23PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: >> Palle Girgensohn wrote: >> >> >I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the >> >latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports >> >and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way... >> > >> >> 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? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-April/001444.html - aW