From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 16 14:12:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3470816A41F for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:12:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA5543D46 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:12:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j7GECbYP077746; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:12:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:12:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Alex Zbyslaw Message-ID: <20050816141236.GA26422@dan.emsphone.com> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20050811225358.04fdf160@cobalt.antimatter.net> <4301E817.9030000@dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4301E817.9030000@dial.pipex.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:12:42 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 16), Alex Zbyslaw said: > Glenn Dawson wrote: > >Even if there were, if the file systems you are using now are > >working, there isn't much reason to change them. > > > >UFS2 expanded some fields from 32 bits to 64, and added or changed a > >few features, but the two are still very similar. > > UFS2 also added snapshots which make live dumps safer, among other > things. Snapshots work just fine with UFS1. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com