differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Aug 16 14:12:42 GMT 2005


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.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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