From 023030be782d51098efab6bbd9491af9ddde2460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 06:48:18 +0000 Subject: New release notes: root filesystem on a SCSI CDROM, filesystem bugs fixed. MFCs noted: em(4), faith(4) loadable/unloadable/clonable, sis(4) VLAN support, interface capabilities, IP address hash table, syn cache, newfs(8) defaults. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 25 +++++++++++++++------- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 25 +++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 6249c43..e692382 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -490,10 +490,10 @@ support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports transmit/receive checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543 and 82544-based - adapters. + adapters. &merged; The &man.faith.4; device is now loadable, unloadable, and - clonable. + clonable. &merged; Support for Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based Ethernet PC-Cards has been added back in the &man.fe.4; driver. &merged; @@ -558,8 +558,8 @@ Added support for PCI Ethernet adapters based on the National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset, including the NetGear - FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver. &merged; - This device has support for VLANs. + FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver. + This device has support for VLANs. &merged; The snc driver for the National Semiconductor DP8393X (SONIC) Ethernet controller has been added. Currently, @@ -597,11 +597,11 @@ The per-interface ifnet structure now has the ability to indicate a set of capabilities supported by a network interface, and which ones are enabled. &man.ifconfig.8; - has support for querying these capabilities. + has support for querying these capabilities. &merged; Performance with hosts having a large number of IP aliases has been improved, by replacing the per-interface - if_inaddr linear list with a hash table. + if_inaddr linear list with a hash table. &merged; Network devices now automatically appear as special files in /dev/net. Interface hardware ioctls (not @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ the connection as usual. This so-called syncache makes a host much more resistant to TCP-based Denial of Service attacks. Work on this feature was - sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs. + sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs. &merged; A bug in the TCP implementation, which could cause connections to stall if a sender saw a zero-sized window, has @@ -948,6 +948,15 @@ The virtual memory subsystem now backs UFS directory memory requirements by default (this behavior is controlled via the vfs.vmiodirenable sysctl variable. &merged; + + A bug that prevented the root filesystem from being + mounted from a SCSI CDROM has been fixed (ATAPI CDROMs were + always supported). &merged; + + A number of bugs in the filesystem code, discovered + through the use of a filesystem test tool, have been fixed. + Under certain circumstances (primarily related to use of NFS), + these bugs could cause data corruption or kernel panics. @@ -1865,7 +1874,7 @@ by &man.newfs.8; are now 16384 and 2048 bytes, respectively (the old defaults were 8192 and 1024 bytes). This change generally provides increased performance, at the expense of some wasted disk - space. + space. &merged; &man.newsyslog.8; now has the ability to ability to compress log files using &man.bzip2.1;. &merged; 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 6249c43..e692382 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -490,10 +490,10 @@ support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports transmit/receive checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543 and 82544-based - adapters. + adapters. &merged; The &man.faith.4; device is now loadable, unloadable, and - clonable. + clonable. &merged; Support for Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based Ethernet PC-Cards has been added back in the &man.fe.4; driver. &merged; @@ -558,8 +558,8 @@ Added support for PCI Ethernet adapters based on the National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset, including the NetGear - FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver. &merged; - This device has support for VLANs. + FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver. + This device has support for VLANs. &merged; The snc driver for the National Semiconductor DP8393X (SONIC) Ethernet controller has been added. Currently, @@ -597,11 +597,11 @@ The per-interface ifnet structure now has the ability to indicate a set of capabilities supported by a network interface, and which ones are enabled. &man.ifconfig.8; - has support for querying these capabilities. + has support for querying these capabilities. &merged; Performance with hosts having a large number of IP aliases has been improved, by replacing the per-interface - if_inaddr linear list with a hash table. + if_inaddr linear list with a hash table. &merged; Network devices now automatically appear as special files in /dev/net. Interface hardware ioctls (not @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ the connection as usual. This so-called syncache makes a host much more resistant to TCP-based Denial of Service attacks. Work on this feature was - sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs. + sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs. &merged; A bug in the TCP implementation, which could cause connections to stall if a sender saw a zero-sized window, has @@ -948,6 +948,15 @@ The virtual memory subsystem now backs UFS directory memory requirements by default (this behavior is controlled via the vfs.vmiodirenable sysctl variable. &merged; + + A bug that prevented the root filesystem from being + mounted from a SCSI CDROM has been fixed (ATAPI CDROMs were + always supported). &merged; + + A number of bugs in the filesystem code, discovered + through the use of a filesystem test tool, have been fixed. + Under certain circumstances (primarily related to use of NFS), + these bugs could cause data corruption or kernel panics. @@ -1865,7 +1874,7 @@ by &man.newfs.8; are now 16384 and 2048 bytes, respectively (the old defaults were 8192 and 1024 bytes). This change generally provides increased performance, at the expense of some wasted disk - space. + space. &merged; &man.newsyslog.8; now has the ability to ability to compress log files using &man.bzip2.1;. &merged; -- cgit v1.1