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@@ -25,11 +25,23 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW: 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. + introduces some changes: + + MSDOS/EBR: 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. fstabs may need to be modified. + + BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most + cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with + disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole + top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users. + + General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices + whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file + systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than + the "386BSD" type). + + Most of these changes date approximately from 200812. 20090319: The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows |
