From f367fece83e216fef75ee0d0f8fe2d11cb04ce59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:14:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: GEOM_MULTIPATH, unionfs reimplementation (+MFC), addr2ascii()/ascii2addr() removal, dump(8)/restore(8) extended attributes, objformat(1) gone, vnconfig(8) gone, ncurses wide character support. --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 33 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index d1465ff3219..f1febe75fa9 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -1079,6 +1079,11 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any are deprecated and have been removed. &merged; + A new GEOM_MULTIPATH class has been added to support + multiple access paths to disk devices. The &man.gmultipath.8; + utility has been added to control the behavior of disk devices + using this feature. + A new GEOM class GEOM_ZERO has been added. It creates a very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero and is mainly useful for performance testing. @@ -1167,12 +1172,28 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" Initial (read-only) support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been added. + + The unionfs file system has been re-implemented. This + version solves many crashing and locking issues compared to + the previous implementation. It also adds + new transparent and masquerade + modes for automatically creating files in the upper file system + layer of unions. More information can be found in the + &man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged; + Userland Changes + The addr2ascii() and ascii2addr() library calls, originally + introduced by the INRIA IPv6 implementation, have been removed + from libc. They have no consumers in the + &os; base system. In a related change, support + for AF_LINK addresses has been added to + &man.getnameinfo.3;. + Padding of ai_addrlen in struct addrinfo has been removed, which was originally for the ABI compatibility. @@ -1242,6 +1263,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" flag, which causes it to ignore files and directories with the nodump flag set. &merged; + The &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; programs now attempt to + save and restore extended attribute information on files. + The &man.fsdb.8; utility now supports changing the birth time of files on UFS2 file systems using the new btime command. &merged; @@ -1486,6 +1510,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" installed statically instead of being generated on every reboot. + The objformat(1) utility and getobjformat(3) library (the + last remnants of a.out object file support) have been removed. + The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;, &man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices. @@ -1618,6 +1645,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration file now support functionality which is equivalent to it. + The vnconfig(8) utility, which was long ago replaced by + &man.mdconfig.8;, has been removed. + The &man.xargs.1; utility now supports a flag which makes the command execution when the standard input does not contain any non-whitespace-characters. &merged; @@ -1796,7 +1826,8 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img" 0.9.7e to 0.9.8d. ncurses has been updated from - 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. + 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. ncurses now also has wide + character support. hostapd has been updated from version 0.3.9 to version 0.4.8.