5 to 6

Andrew Reilly andrew-freebsd at areilly.bpc-users.org
Thu Oct 26 06:04:43 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:05:30PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Andrew Reilly wrote:
> 
> >So: my two cents: it can work, but it's possible for it not to
> >work, and care is required.
> 
> That's always true, but worth a reminder nonetheless. :)
> 
> >[*] The production server is using a software RAID mirror on
> >a pair of SATA drives on a low-end Intel P4/ICH6 motherboard,
> >using ar(4), configured by atacontrol.  Fsck on 6.x can't find
> >any superblocks on /usr, but 5.5 is fine.
> 
> By chance did you upgrade this fs in place from a 4.x install? In 
> other words, do you have only UFS1?

That's an interesting question.  This server has been through a
goodly few incarnations, over many years.  Once upon a time it
was running 3.4 or there abouts.  I thought that I had re-built
it from scratch the last time (to 5.3), which presumably would
have given me UFS2, but the possibility exists...

How would I be able to tell?  tunefs -p lists ACLs and MAC
multlabel and soft updates, but of those only soft updates is
enabled, so I don't know if that is conclusive.  Did UFS2 give
us anything beyond ACLs and largeness?  bsdlabel, mount and df
don't seem to give any particular indication...

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew


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