On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy Wilkins <enli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone elaborate on what exactly this statement in the 8.0 > detailed release notes means? > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#FS > >> 2.2.5 File Systems >> >> “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported. >> >> Important: Such disks will need to be reformatted to work with this release. > > Due to history I won't go into, all my production (currently > 7.2-RELEASE) systems are installed onto "dangerously dedicated" disks. > What exactly do I need to do to upgrade them to 8.0? (I'm not asking > for an upgrade procedure, I'm familiar with that, but rather, how this > change impacts the upgrade.) I think that the suggestion that the > disks need to be reformatted is extreme and I hope something less > extreme will suffice. > > Also, just to be clear, does this statement refer to boot disks, data > disks, or both? > > It doesn't make sense to me that "dangerously dedicated" could have an > impact on UFS filesystems specifically. A partition table is just a > partition table, regardless of what filesystems might be written on > disks, yes? Am I misunderstanding something here? > > Thanks for helping to clear up my confusion... > > plw
Peggy, Were you able to find an answer for this? I also have a number of servers and firewalls that use dangerously dedicated disks (boot and data). I don't see why UFS would care if it's mounted from ad1a vs. ad1s1a. - Max _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
