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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said:
> > The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think
> > has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2
> > filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x and
> > earlier (or on older filesystems created by those older versions of
> > FreeBSD).
> 
> Snapshots work just fine on UFS1 filesystems; you just need to be
> running 5.x or newer.

You are correct, sir; ignore me---I must have been thinking of native
extended attributes support...

(Unfortunately, this still means you can't take snapshots on 4.x and
earlier, though, which is a shame because I find the feature very
handy.)

Cheers,

Paul.
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