new filesystem improvements in 6.0-RELEASE, require newfs?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-11-04 11:50, Nathan Vidican <nvidican at wmptl.com> wrote:
> Most notably amongst the improvements/additions to 6.0-RELEASE,
> are those in the filesystem area. In performing a system
> upgrade, does one need to newfs/format a given partition with a
> new file system to make use of these optimizations, or is the
> bonus simply in the kernel/filesystem support and sticking with
> the current UFS2 partition (5.3-RELEASE/amd64) will step-up to it?

The VFS optimizations and improvements in the SMP & locking don't
really depend on having a particular file system type, AFAIK, so
you shouldn't need to newfs for the performance gains they
implement.