Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:56:06 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: chuckr@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Robey), richard@harlequin.co.uk, freebsd-install@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Installation" and "upgrade" Message-ID: <199509260556.WAA12911@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Sep 95 22:33:57 PDT." <199509260533.WAA08880@ref.tfs.com>
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>well, what has changed? >the bootloader. > >some tuning parameters > >the diskslice stuff basically looks the same 'on disk' >(can handle old slices) > >I have 'upgraded' across every release since 386bsd 0.1 pl1 >and whie I have usually newfs'd every partition at some time or other, >I have always had a partition that I left alone here or there. >there has never been a problem. ...The handling of symbolic links (how they are stored in the filesystem - in the inode), and a few other things I've forgotten. There is allegedly a bug in our 4.2BSD filesystem compatibility related to symbolic links (or was it somewhere else?) that Terry recently fixed. The fix has not been brought into 2.1 as it involves a bee's nest of other changes. I highly recommend that people update their filesystems to the 4.4BSD format. I don't have any old 4.2BSD filesystems here and I will not guarantee that those will work reliably for general use (e.g. new file creates, etc). -DG
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