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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-12-03 23:03:45 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-12-03 23:03:45 +0000 |
commit | 6b5692a23346c3510d8d333b7495e4cdbd598cca (patch) | |
tree | 8456525338555b0040bb01205c71d2230a27e9b9 /release | |
parent | 7df36e7050d668954254dfbc385eabcb706e1e34 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-6b5692a23346c3510d8d333b7495e4cdbd598cca.zip FreeBSD-src-6b5692a23346c3510d8d333b7495e4cdbd598cca.tar.gz |
New release notes: adduser(8)/rmuser(8) and the Great Perl Rewrite,
dump(8) -L.
Modified release notes: DEVICE_POLLING for nge(4) [1], clarification
of some UFS2 items, Perl distribution in sysinstall.
Submitted by: Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> [1]
Approved by: re (implicitly)
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 26 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 26 |
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 5d82a52..6cef4a4 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <varname>kern.polling.user_frac</varname> sysctl indicating the percentage of CPU time to be reserved for userland. The devices initially supporting polling are &man.dc.4;, - &man.fxp.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in + &man.fxp.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in the &man.polling.4; manual page. &merged;</para> <para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">The packet-forwarding performance of certain @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> command can be used to mount these disks.</para> <para>Basic support has been added for the UFS2 filesystem. - Among its features: + Among the new features of UFS2: <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -1593,7 +1593,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> </listitem> </itemizedlist> - </para> + UFS1 remains the default on-disk format, although UFS2 can be + selected as an option in &man.newfs.8; or via the partitioning + screen in &man.sysinstall.8;. 64-bit platforms can boot from + UFS2 root filesystems.</para> </sect3> @@ -2245,6 +2248,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>Support for creating &man.a.out.5; format executables with the base system compiler toolchain has been removed.</para> + <para>&man.adduser.8; and &man.rmuser.8; are now &man.sh.1; + scripts, rather than Perl scripts.</para> + <para role="historic">If the first argument to &man.ancontrol.8; or &man.wicontrol.8; doesn't start with a <literal>-</literal>, it is assumed to be an interface. &merged;</para> @@ -2466,6 +2472,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.dump.8; now supports inheritance of the <literal>nodump</literal> flag down a hierarchy. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.dump.8; now supports a <option>-L</option> flag for + dumping live UFS and UFS2 filesystems safely. To obtain a + consistent dump image, &man.dump.8; takes a snapshot of the + filesystem and performs the dump on the snapshot. The snapshot + is removed when the dump is complete.</para> + <para role="historic">The <option>-T</option> option to &man.dump.8; no longer swallows an extra argument. &merged;</para> @@ -3948,7 +3960,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para><application>Perl</application> has been removed from the &os; base system. It can still be installed from the &os; - Ports Collection or as a binary package; moving it out of the + Ports Collection, as a binary package, or via the <guimenuitem>Perl + distribution</guimenuitem> item in &man.sysinstall.8;'s + distribution menu. + Moving Perl out of the base system will make future upgrades and maintenence easier. To reduce the dependence of the base system on Perl, many utilities have been @@ -3956,8 +3971,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> made for each affected utility). <note> - <para>The Perl removal and - package integration work is ongoing.</para> + <para>The Perl script removal work is ongoing.</para> </note> </para> 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 5d82a52..6cef4a4 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <varname>kern.polling.user_frac</varname> sysctl indicating the percentage of CPU time to be reserved for userland. The devices initially supporting polling are &man.dc.4;, - &man.fxp.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in + &man.fxp.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in the &man.polling.4; manual page. &merged;</para> <para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">The packet-forwarding performance of certain @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> command can be used to mount these disks.</para> <para>Basic support has been added for the UFS2 filesystem. - Among its features: + Among the new features of UFS2: <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -1593,7 +1593,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> </listitem> </itemizedlist> - </para> + UFS1 remains the default on-disk format, although UFS2 can be + selected as an option in &man.newfs.8; or via the partitioning + screen in &man.sysinstall.8;. 64-bit platforms can boot from + UFS2 root filesystems.</para> </sect3> @@ -2245,6 +2248,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>Support for creating &man.a.out.5; format executables with the base system compiler toolchain has been removed.</para> + <para>&man.adduser.8; and &man.rmuser.8; are now &man.sh.1; + scripts, rather than Perl scripts.</para> + <para role="historic">If the first argument to &man.ancontrol.8; or &man.wicontrol.8; doesn't start with a <literal>-</literal>, it is assumed to be an interface. &merged;</para> @@ -2466,6 +2472,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.dump.8; now supports inheritance of the <literal>nodump</literal> flag down a hierarchy. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.dump.8; now supports a <option>-L</option> flag for + dumping live UFS and UFS2 filesystems safely. To obtain a + consistent dump image, &man.dump.8; takes a snapshot of the + filesystem and performs the dump on the snapshot. The snapshot + is removed when the dump is complete.</para> + <para role="historic">The <option>-T</option> option to &man.dump.8; no longer swallows an extra argument. &merged;</para> @@ -3948,7 +3960,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para><application>Perl</application> has been removed from the &os; base system. It can still be installed from the &os; - Ports Collection or as a binary package; moving it out of the + Ports Collection, as a binary package, or via the <guimenuitem>Perl + distribution</guimenuitem> item in &man.sysinstall.8;'s + distribution menu. + Moving Perl out of the base system will make future upgrades and maintenence easier. To reduce the dependence of the base system on Perl, many utilities have been @@ -3956,8 +3971,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> made for each affected utility). <note> - <para>The Perl removal and - package integration work is ongoing.</para> + <para>The Perl script removal work is ongoing.</para> </note> </para> |