Star UFS2 Now the Default Creation Type on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 21st Apr 2003 04:08 UTC
FreeBSD FreeBSD's Robert Watson says that effective today, newfs(8) and sysinstall(8) will create UFS2 file systems by default, unless explicitly specified.
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differences between UFS1 and UFS2
by A.K.H. on Mon 21st Apr 2003 16:02 UTC

As far as I know, UFS1 and UFS2 are similar. However, UFS2 was designed with ACLs and extended attributes in mind while this support for UFS1 was somehow bolted on as an afterthought. The main performance gains of UFS2 will be for those that use ACLs (and extended attributes).

This is especially important for Samba users since windows needs both ACLs and extended attributes. Samba has always had some problems with things like hidden files and what not (before ACL support).

Anyways, I'm not a filesystem guru, so if someone else would like to give better description it'd be appreciated.