differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

[Alex Zbyslaw]

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.

--Alex