Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:55:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48062 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601190055.u0J0tdCf072831@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Tue Jan 19 00:55:39 2016 New Revision: 48062 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48062 Log: Add nosh entry from Jonathan de Boyne Pollard Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Mon Jan 18 23:03:30 2016 (r48061) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Tue Jan 19 00:55:39 2016 (r48062) @@ -4109,4 +4109,120 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat="proj"> + <title>The nosh Project</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Jonathan</given> + <common>de Boyne Pollard</common> + </name> + <email>J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html">Introduction</url>; + <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/FreeBSD-binary-packages.html">&os; binary packages</url> + <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/timorous-admin-installation-how-to.html">Installation How-To</url> + <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/roadmap.html">Roadmap</url>; + <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/commands.html">Commands</url>; + <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/guide/index.html">A Slightly Outdated User Guide</url> + <url href="https://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/">The Supervision Mailing List</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The nosh project is a suite of system-level utilities for + initializing, running, and shutting down BSD systems, and for + managing daemons, terminals, and logging. It supersedes BSD + <tt>init</tt> and the NetBSD <tt>rc.d</tt> system, drawing + inspiration from Solaris SMF for named milestones, + daemontools-encore for service control/status mechanisms, + UCSPI, and IBM AIX for separated service and system + management. It comprises a range of compatibility mechanisms, + including shims for familiar commands from other systems, and + an automatic import mechanism that takes existing + configuration data from <tt>/etc/fstab</tt>, + <tt>/etc/rc.conf{,.local}</tt>, <tt>/etc/ttys</tt>, and + elsewhere, applying them to its native service definitions and + creating additional native services. It is portable + (including to Linux) and composable, it provides a migration + path from the world of systemd Linux, and it does not require new + kernel APIs. It provides clean service environments, + orderings and dependencies between services, parallelized + startup and shutdown (including <tt>fsck</tt>), strictly + size-capped and autorotated logging, the service manager as a + "subreaper", and uses <tt>kevent(2)</tt> for + event-driven parallelism.</p> + + <p>Since the last status report, in October 2015, the project + has seen: the complete replacement of its event-handling subsystem + on Linux; the introduction of tools for exporting cyclog/multilog + logs via RFC 5426 to remote log handlers (such as logstash); and + the switching of the user-mode virtual terminal subsystem on BSD + to using USB devices directly, a more powerful device interface + than sysmouse et al. because it permits directly positioning touch + devices for mice and other things (thus permitting "mouse + integration" under VirtualBox for those who run PC-BSD/&os; + on VirtualBox virtual machines), but sysmouse et al. can still be + used if desired.</p> + + <p>In version 1.24, released shortly before publication of + this report, there are extensive additions for supporting a + purely-ZFS system with an empty <tt>/etc/fstab</tt> (as the PC-BSD + 10.2 system installer creates), and the ability to convert + <tt>systemd</tt> unit files' process priority settings to BSD's + rtprio/idprio. </p> + + <p>Version 1.24 also sees a large chunk taken out of the + remainder of the on-going project to create enough native service + bundles and ancillary utilities to entirely supplant the rc.d + system. The progress of this project has been open from the + start, and can be followed on the nosh roadmap web page. As of + version 1.24, there are a mere 27 items remaining out of the + original target list of 157, with a 28th and a 29th (from PC-BSD + 10.2) added. Items crossed off by version 1.24 include (amongst + others) <tt>mfs</tt> support for <tt>/tmp</tt>, static ARP and + networking, persistent "entropy" for the randomness + subsystem, <tt>pefs</tt>, and <tt>hald</tt>.</p> + + <p>The remaining items in the task list are mostly aimed at + making the overall system integration cleaner and friendlier to + modern systems. We're also interested in receiving suggestions, + bug reports, and other feedback from users; try following the + how-to guide and see how things go!</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Add kernel support for passing a <tt>-b</tt> option to + pid 1, and support for a <tt>boot_bare</tt> variable in the loader, + to allow "emergency" (where even no shell dotfiles + are loaded) and "rescue" mode bootstraps, akin to + Linux. (History: The <tt>-b</tt> mechanism and idea date + back to version 2.57d of Miquel van Smoorenburg's System 5 + init clone, dated 1995-12-03, and was already known as + "emergency boot" by 1997.)</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add support to &os;'s <tt>fsck(8)</tt> for outputting + machine-readable progress reports to a designated file + descriptor, so that <tt>nosh</tt> can provide progress bars + for multiple <tt>fsck</tt>s running in parallel. + <tt>nosh</tt> already provides this functionality on Linux, + where <tt>fsck(8)</tt> does provide machine-readable + output.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Identify when the configuration import system needs to be + triggered, such as when <tt>bsdconfig</tt> alters + configuration files, and create the necessary hooks to + import external configuration changes into nosh.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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