SUMMARY: Upgrading Solaris 6 to 9 / Any differences in UFS file systems fr om Solaris 6 to Solaris 9

From: Bradley Alan (ABradley@omam.com)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 10:05:46 EDT


Hi,

Thanks to Casper Dik for promptly responding.
The answer to the question below is Yes.

For some info on UFS filesystems, here is Caspers e-mail:

>
>Yes, you could do the same; upgrades would not be possible if
>the ufs fileformat was changed incompatibly.
>
>In general, the following holds:
>
>
> - ufs filesystems are fully forward compatible
> (Solaris X can read ufs filesystems created on
> Solaris Y where Y <= X)
>
> - ufs filesystems are backward compatible in a
> limited sense; Solaris X can fsck and then
> mount a filesystem created on Solaris Y
> where Y > X.
>
>Casper
>

-----Original Message-----

Hi All,

I was asked the following question and would appreciate your comments. In
my opinion it should be no problem.
I will summarize.

"I have a Sybase ASIQ 12.5.3 running on Solaris 2.6. The Sybase Database was
using raw datafiles. I detached all the Sybase disks and installed Solaris
9. I then attached the Sybase disks and started Sybase and all seems fine.
The database status is good, I can do a Sybase backup and I can insert
records.
My question is: Could I do the same if the database uses mounted file
systems? i.e. Are there any differences in the file systems from 2.6 to 9 if
the file systems are defined as ufs?"
Regards,
Alan.

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