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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-10-26 17:27:35 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-10-26 17:27:35 +0000 |
commit | 0da8e2ee6e7cfb0978fa5512eba304feff0736f7 (patch) | |
tree | 0e8331c69100d65673a5be9a12179e71e219605f | |
parent | 771abe87e237d291f6de6cf71ec02b35084a1ac9 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-0da8e2ee6e7cfb0978fa5512eba304feff0736f7.zip FreeBSD-src-0da8e2ee6e7cfb0978fa5512eba304feff0736f7.tar.gz |
Modified release notes: Add a note to geom(4) entry about the demise
of compatability slices.
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 17 |
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index e1b3d85..b608264 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -1312,7 +1312,22 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>The &man.geom.4; disk I/O request transformation framework has been added; this extensible framework is designed to support a wide variety of operations on I/O requests on their - way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.</para> + way from the upper kernel to the device drivers. + + <note> + <para>GEOM-enabled kernels no longer support + <quote>compatability slices</quote>. This feature + (supported on the i386 and pc98 only) allowed a user to + refer to a disk partition without specifying an MBR slice + (e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0a</filename>); the kernel would + automatically find the first applicable &os; slice and use + it. On GEOM kernels, only the full partition names + (e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0s1a</filename>) are allowed when + referring to partitions within MBR slices. This + change should affect very few users.</para> + </note> + + </para> <para>A GEOM Based Disk Encryption module has been added. It provides denial of access to <quote>cold disks</quote>, with diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index e1b3d85..b608264 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -1312,7 +1312,22 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>The &man.geom.4; disk I/O request transformation framework has been added; this extensible framework is designed to support a wide variety of operations on I/O requests on their - way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.</para> + way from the upper kernel to the device drivers. + + <note> + <para>GEOM-enabled kernels no longer support + <quote>compatability slices</quote>. This feature + (supported on the i386 and pc98 only) allowed a user to + refer to a disk partition without specifying an MBR slice + (e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0a</filename>); the kernel would + automatically find the first applicable &os; slice and use + it. On GEOM kernels, only the full partition names + (e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0s1a</filename>) are allowed when + referring to partitions within MBR slices. This + change should affect very few users.</para> + </note> + + </para> <para>A GEOM Based Disk Encryption module has been added. It provides denial of access to <quote>cold disks</quote>, with |