From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 20 23:13:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB657106566C; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4CF8FC08; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2KNDWgE016796; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:32 GMT (envelope-from ivoras@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from ivoras@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2KNDWs2016795; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:32 GMT (envelope-from ivoras@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <200903202313.n2KNDWs2016795@svn.freebsd.org> From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:32 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: svn commit: r190192 - head X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:33 -0000 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