Author: mckusick
Date: Wed Aug 23 04:43:50 2017
New Revision: 322807
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/322807
Log:
MFC of 322298 noting MFC 322806 in UPDATING
Modified:
stable/11/UPDATING
Modified: stable/11/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/UPDATING Wed Aug 23 04:35:03 2017 (r322806)
+++ stable/11/UPDATING Wed Aug 23 04:43:50 2017 (r322807)
@@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and
the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process
from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
+20170822:
+ Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been
+ unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322806,
+ the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been
+ moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block.
+ Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later
+ will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem
+ created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block
+ created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in
+ forground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it
+ starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS''
+ to which you should answer yes.
+
20170518:
arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
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