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@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW: to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.) +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. + 20090319: The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface |
