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 interface
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