From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 25 12:40:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cadmium.frontier.net (cadmium.frontier.net [199.45.141.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF8537B416 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eggplant.frontier.net (delerium.static.frontier.net [199.45.201.33]) by cadmium.frontier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B167AAA2; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:40:44 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:40:37 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) From: Charlie Watts To: Stephen Hilton Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 3.3-RELEASE -> 4-STABLE In-Reply-To: <20020425140307.4159ebe4.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: cewatts@mail.frontier.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Stephen Hilton wrote: > 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. 3.3 supports softupdates. And you don't need to format to turn it on anyway. Just unmount and "tunefs -n enable /path/to/partition". Do you mean "format so that you get the new-dirpref benefits" ? That isn't really important for this particular box, but I hadn't even thought of it. Thanks. > I believe that FreeBSD 4.1 can cvsup/buildworld update properly directly > to 4.5-STABLE (not 4.5-RELEASE) That's the sort of thing I'm looking for, thank you very much. -- Charlie Watts cewatts@frontier.net Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message