Separate the GEOM_PART entry into paragraphs with differences from old
slicers. Add more notes. Reviewed by: marcel (implicit) Approved by: gnn (mentor) (implicit)
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@ -25,11 +25,23 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW:
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GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
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GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
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replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
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replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
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introduces some changes: the devices created from MSDOS extended
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introduces some changes:
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partition entries (EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR
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and are now symlinks to devices with offset-based names, and kernel
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MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
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dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices whose partition
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(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
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types indicate they are meant to be used for file systems.
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to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
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BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
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cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
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disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
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top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
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General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
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whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
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systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
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the "386BSD" type).
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Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
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The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
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The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
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