Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0100
Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu> wrote:

> 
> I just read in another post about disklayout
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> According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment
> and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your 
> partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work.
> Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't
> play so well with 4k drives.
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> 
> 
> I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running
> 8.3 systems.
> 
> I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding
> all ports according to man portmaster.
> 
> 
> Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling?
> 
> Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation?

let me phrase it this way: I upgrade always via source but I am
prepared to hit a wall between. The number of walls are very low
meanwhile. The advantage of a normal upgrade via sources are so many
that I always risk it. But I make sure that I have the option of
re-installation at hand.

Erich