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Modified release notes: Add a note to geom(4) entry about the demise

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of compatability slices.
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Bruce A. Mah 2002-10-26 17:27:35 +00:00
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<para>The &man.geom.4; disk I/O request transformation framework
has been added; this extensible framework is designed to
support a wide variety of operations on I/O requests on their
way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.</para>
way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.
<note>
<para>GEOM-enabled kernels no longer support
<quote>compatability slices</quote>. This feature
(supported on the i386 and pc98 only) allowed a user to
refer to a disk partition without specifying an MBR slice
(e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0a</filename>); the kernel would
automatically find the first applicable &os; slice and use
it. On GEOM kernels, only the full partition names
(e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0s1a</filename>) are allowed when
referring to partitions within MBR slices. This
change should affect very few users.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>A GEOM Based Disk Encryption module has been added. It
provides denial of access to <quote>cold disks</quote>, with

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@ -1312,7 +1312,22 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The &man.geom.4; disk I/O request transformation framework
has been added; this extensible framework is designed to
support a wide variety of operations on I/O requests on their
way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.</para>
way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.
<note>
<para>GEOM-enabled kernels no longer support
<quote>compatability slices</quote>. This feature
(supported on the i386 and pc98 only) allowed a user to
refer to a disk partition without specifying an MBR slice
(e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0a</filename>); the kernel would
automatically find the first applicable &os; slice and use
it. On GEOM kernels, only the full partition names
(e.g. <filename>/dev/ad0s1a</filename>) are allowed when
referring to partitions within MBR slices. This
change should affect very few users.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>A GEOM Based Disk Encryption module has been added. It
provides denial of access to <quote>cold disks</quote>, with