block sizees larger than 8192 bytes have been resolved, as per the
following deltas:
rev 1.34 src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c
rev 1.5 src/sys/boot/alpha/boot1/sys.c
filesystem using a block size of 8192. Since this seems unlikely to
be fixed soon (specifically in time for 4.5-RELEASE on the RELENG_4
branch), fall back to the old default block and frag sizes of 8192 and
1024 in sysinstall on the alpha.
Reported by: jhb
16384/2048.
Following recent discussions on the -arch mailing list, involving dillon
and mckusick, this change parallels the one made over a decade ago when
the default was bumped up from 4096/512.
This should provide significant performance improvements for most
folks, less significant performance losses for a few folks and
wasted space lost to large fragments for many folks.
For discussion, please see the following thread in the -arch archive:
Subject: Using a larger block size on large filesystems
The discussion ceases to be relevant when the issue of partitioning
schemes is raised.
have a USB mouse. Here's the deal on how this works: USB mouse have
moused run for them automatically by usbd so we don't need to setup moused
for them. We do need to setup moused for other mice though, so if the
user has a USB mouse, we don't need to do anything. Hence the wording
"Do you have a non-USB mouse installed?" for the question. The question
can be reworded as "Do you have a PS/2 or Serial mouse installed?" instead
if that is preferred.
sysinstall will automatically expand the previous partition to take up
the freed up space. So you can 'D'elete /home and /usr will get the
combined space, or you can 'D'elete /tmp and /var will get the combined space.
This gives the user, developer, or lay person a huge amount of flexibility
in constructing partitions from an 'A'uto base. It takes only 3 or 4
keystrokes to achieve virtually any combination of having or not having
a /tmp and/or /home after doing an 'A'uto create.
Change 'A'uto creation of /var/tmp to 'A'uto creation /tmp, which should
be less controversial.
MFC after: 6 days
defaults both in regards to the size of the partitions that are created
and in regards to safety and functional separation.
Still TODO: extend the previous partition to cover a deleted partition
if the previous partiton was auto-created, and supply some sort of
solution for /tmp.
Reviewed by: Just about everyone
Approved by: Nobody except maybe my pet mouse fred
Obtained from: God, so complain to HIM
MFC after: 1 week
1) Use devfs to mount filesystems. If mounting devfs is fail,
fallback to old code.
2) When fscking filesystems, use 'fsck_ffs' explicitly. As a
result, we no longer need 'fsck' the wrapper program.
Reviewed by: jkh
Since userconfig feature is implemented by tweaking variables (hint.*)
with loader(8), we can put back an equivalent feature. Maybe the first
step for this is to commit yokota-san's patch (add userconfig command
for loader).
Approved by: jkh
and RTSOL in sysinstall. If the respective TRY_FOO variable is set to
"YES" then it will be tried without prompting the user.
However, if the TRY_FOO variable is set to "NO" then the user will not
be prompted for a choice. This is the correct behavior, since we want
people to be able to script sysinstall in either case.
However, the default TRY_FOO variable has been "NO" since 1999. This
is incorrect, and when the logic was corrected in tcpip.c this has the
effect of never giving the user a choice to use DHCP or IPv6. The
value should be undefined until it is set by a script or by the user.
Submitted by: Randy Pratt, Chern Lee, many others.
the name for the moderate security profile is "moderate", not
"medium", so update this one reference to it as "medium".
This is a 4.4-RELEASE MFC candidate.
MFC after: 2 days
by providing the opportunity to edit inetd.conf during the system
installation process. The following modifications were made:
(1) Expand the Anonymous FTP description dialog to indicate that inetd
and ftpd must be enabled before it can be used.
(2) Introduce a new configInetd() pair of dialogs, the first describing
inetd, giving a couple of examples of services that require it, and
hinting at potential risk, then asking the user if they wish to
enable it. The second indicates that inetd.conf must be configured
to enabled specific services, and asks if the user would like to
load inetd.conf into the editor to modify it. Add this
configuration action to the index.
There are some further improvements that might be considered:
(1) Provide a more inetd.conf-specific configuration tool that speaks
inetd.conf(5). However, this is made difficult by the "yet another
configuration format" nature of inetd.conf, as well as its use of
commenting to disable services, rather than an in-syntax way to
disable a service without commenting it out. Submissions here
would probably be welcome.
(2) There's some overlap between settings in the somewhat obtuse
Security Profile mechanism and other settings, including the inetd
setting, and NFS server configuration. As features become
individually tunable, they should probably be removed from the
security profile mechanism. Otherwise, somewhat counter-intuitively,
sysinstall (in practice) queries multiple times whether inetd, nfsd,
etc, should be enabled/disabled. A possible future direction might
be to drive profiles not by degree of paranoia, rather, the set
of services desired. Or simply to remove the Security Profile
mechanism and resort to feature-driven configuration.
Reviewed by: imp, chris, jake, nate, -arch, -stable
names suggest, they perform methods on Device's. In addition, they
check that the pointer passed to them is valid; if it isn't, they
pretend that the action failed. This fixes some crashes due to NULL
dereferences (e.g., PR 26509).
Approved by: jkh (some time ago)
no as a default. Sysinstall should be both less dangerous and less
annoying as a result of this change, though that's just my opinion
(since they're the defaults which annoy ME the least :).
standard or serial. This change needs to be done to the entire system that
depends on this. This way we don't have some code using OnVTY checks
and other doing
strcmp(variable_get(VAR_FIXIT_TTY), "standard") == 0
checks. Also we need to set VAR_FIXIT_TTY to "serial" if we come up on
a serial console.
Also fixed a dialog problem in that dialog was used when dialog was
disabled causing some troubles such as not letting the cursor keys
work when exiting the fixit mode on media (ie. not the fixit shell but
for example fixit on a floppy).
Submitted by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
PR: 22352
a default. This should prevent people from whacking return at
the Distributions menu and getting nothing selected as a result
(a minimal "standard" system will at least install).
Flagged as big tech support headache by: Chris Shumway <cshumway@osd.bsdi.com>
appropriate(?) defaults for "low", "medium" and "high" security
environments. Medium is basically what we currently have with a little
seat-belt tightening where it made sense. Low is the same as medium but
without the tightening. High is positively fascist with nothing turned
on by default and an automatic call to 911 if it can find a modem.
does bad things to /etc/make.conf in certain situations. Also
soften the "don't install crypto from the USA!" messages since,
except for RSA (which is still noted), that's not so true anymore.
IPv6 configuration is only done by rtsol. Does someone really
need manual configuration? :-)
You can specify IPv6 DNS server as well.
We have only one server ftp7.jp.freebsd.org that speaks IPv6
in this time. ftp7.jp speaks IPv4 as well and also listed as
Japan #7.
Approved by: jkh
setting 'usbd_enable' in rc.conf during nwe installs if USB is detected.
Also, since usbd already handles USB mice automatically, note that the
mouse setup section in sysinstall only applies to non-USB mice.
