From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 25 12: 3:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [209.224.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984B537B41D for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.224.22.26] (helo=daggar.sbgnet.net) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 170oWJ-0002O7-00; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:03:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:03:07 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Charlie Watts Subject: Re: 3.3-RELEASE -> 4-STABLE Message-Id: <20020425140307.4159ebe4.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: HiltonBSD.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:30:08 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) Charlie Watts wrote: > I have a machine I want to upgrade from 3.3-RELEASE to 4-STABLE. UPDATING > seems to indicate I can jump all the way to 4-STABLE, but I know folks > have recommended a center step. > If you fresh install from 4.5 or later you can get a good performance boost by enabling soft-updates. Just delete then recreate your partitions in the "label/disklabel" part of sysinstall, and be sure to toggle softupdates on for your non "/" partitions like /usr. This takes some of the "bite" out of having to do the backups and a fresh install. I believe that FreeBSD 4.1 can cvsup/buildworld update properly directly to 4.5-STABLE (not 4.5-RELEASE) Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message