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Separate the GEOM_PART entry into paragraphs with differences from old

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Reviewed by:	marcel (implicit)
Approved by:	gnn (mentor) (implicit)
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Ivan Voras 2009-03-20 23:13:32 +00:00
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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