Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible?

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:03:34PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> >
> >Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is 
> >possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable?
> 
> The only thought/concern I have ... didn't the file system format change 
> in 5.x?  I realize 5.x would be backwards compatible with 4.x, but 
> wouldn't going from 4.x -> 5.x via cvsup lose out on any new features as a 
> result of the file system changes?

You will not gain any of the advantages of UFS2 if you don't install
from scratch, but if the system is otherwise working, you probably
aren't in desperate need of those features.

-- Brooks

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