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UFS2 Now Default Creation Type in FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the create-well-my-padiwan dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Robert Watson says that effective today, newfs(8) and sysinstall(8) will create UFS2 file systems by default, unless explicitly specified. Users wanting to create UFS1 file systems for whatever reason (interoperability with earlier versions, etc) should be sure to employ the -O1 flag to newfs(8), or hit '1' in the label editor in sysinstall(8) to select UFS1."

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  1. Is it just me ... by torpor · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... or does a 256-byte inode seem just a bit ... well ... excessive?

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    1. Re:Is it just me ... by mnmn · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Its excessive for now, but thinking about the future. With AMD coming out with a 64bit cpu, and maybe Intel might counter with a 128 bit (!) cpu for the servers, the address space grows. With that, and LVMed 200GB harddisks, and gigs and gigs of ram, we need scalability till FreeBSD 6.0.

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  2. A quick point by bofkentucky · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is for FreeBSD 5.x, FreeBSD 4.x is still using UFS1

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    1. Re:A quick point by bofkentucky · · Score: 3, Informative

      Any release after 4/21 or if you are tracking -5.0-current with cvsup, it will probably upgrade the tools.

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  3. UFS is dying by nathanh · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is official; Robert Watson now confirms: UFS is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered UFS community when Robert Watson confirmed that UFS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all filesystems. Coming on the heels of a recent FreeBSD survey which plainly states that UFS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. UFS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive filesystem test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict UFS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: UFS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for UFS because UFS is dying. Things are looking very bad for UFS. As many of us are already aware, UFS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    All major surveys show that UFS has steadily declined in market share. UFS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If UFS is to survive at all it will be among OpenBSD dabblers. UFS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, UFS is dead.

    Fact: UFS is dying

    I feel dirty...