OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs

Otto Moerbeek (otto@)posted to misc@a useful summary of the state of play of FFS2in the 6.7 release (and, to some extent, -current).

In his mail, Otto clarifies some things about the latest release:

• In OpenBSD 6.7, ffs2 is the default for new filesystems during install (with some exceptions).
• In OpenBSD 6.7, if you create a new filesystem manually (using newfs(8)) you will still get an FFS1 filesystem unless you force -O2 or if the filesystem will be larger than 1 TB.

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