Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:32 +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: r190192 - head Message-ID: <200903202313.n2KNDWs2016795@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: ivoras Date: Fri Mar 20 23:13:32 2009 New Revision: 190192 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190192 Log: Separate the GEOM_PART entry into paragraphs with differences from old slicers. Add more notes. Reviewed by: marcel (implicit) Approved by: gnn (mentor) (implicit) Modified: head/UPDATING Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Fri Mar 20 23:12:14 2009 (r190191) +++ head/UPDATING Fri Mar 20 23:13:32 2009 (r190192) @@ -25,11 +25,23 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8. 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. + introduces some changes: + + MSDOS/EBR: 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. fstabs may need to be modified. + + BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most + cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with + disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole + top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users. + + General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices + whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file + systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than + the "386BSD" type). + + Most of these changes date approximately from 200812. 20090319: The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
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