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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Re: Matthew Baulch
by Bascule on Mon 21st Apr 2003 18:40 UTC

As UFS1 was the default, I'm sure many have installed 5 believing without a second thought that UFS2 would be used on all of their filesystems. These people are likely to notice an unexpected performance hit when 5.1 comes along with UFS2 as default.

Or they could simply reinstall their systems again...

There aren't that many performance characteristics which are different between UFS1 and 2. It's largely a matter of maximum filesystem size and extended attributes.