Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:51:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r190182 - head Message-ID: <200903202151.n2KLpRMB014702@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: ivoras Date: Fri Mar 20 21:51:27 2009 New Revision: 190182 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190182 Log: Note that GEOM_PART is on by default in 8-CURRENT and how it's different from older slices. OKed by: marcel Approved by: gnn (mentor) Modified: head/UPDATING Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Fri Mar 20 21:50:54 2009 (r190181) +++ head/UPDATING Fri Mar 20 21:51:27 2009 (r190182) @@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8. to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.) +20090320: + GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices, + replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It + introduces some changes: the devices created from MSDOS extended + partition entries (EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR + and are now symlinks to devices with offset-based names, and kernel + dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices whose partition + types indicate they are meant to be used for file systems. + 20090319: The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interfacehome | help
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