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authorjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2016-03-04 17:42:59 +0000
committerjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2016-03-04 17:42:59 +0000
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Add an UPDATING entry for the recent AIO changes.
Suggested by: maxim
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@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20160301:
+ The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The
+ VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
+ Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
+ permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable
+ asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
+ vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
+
20160226:
The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
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