Re: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?

From: Palle Girgensohn (girgen_at_pingpong.net)
Date: 12/30/04

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    To: Igor Pokrovsky <ip@doom.homeunix.org>, Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
    
    

    --On torsdag, december 30, 2004 20.36.56 +0300 Igor Pokrovsky
    <ip@doom.homeunix.org> wrote:

    > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:38:23PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote:
    >> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
    >>
    >> > I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the
    >> > latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports
    >> > and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way...
    >> >
    >>
    >> That's not so bad. A reinstall means you can newfs your partitions as
    >> UFS2 filesystems, which wouldn't be the case if you upgraded 4.10
    >> in-place.
    >
    > Are there any other advantages of UFS2 over UFS except maximum disk size?

    acl -- access control lists
    mac -- Mandatory Access Control

    haven't used them yet, though.

    /Palle

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