Why are so many people using 4.x?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Mar 28 21:41:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:44:57PM -0500, Tom Grove wrote:

> I would certainly recommend going with 6.x.  The reason that many of our 
> servers still run 4.x is that 5.x got a bad reputation and there really 
> is no upgrade path from 4.x to 6.x.  5 and 6 default to using UFS2 and 4 
> uses UFS so, IMHO it's better to rebuild and taking a few hundred users 
> offline for a couple of hours whilst this happens isn't fun.

FYI, there's no reason you need to switch to UFS2 to run 6.

Kris
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