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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