fsck checking. Applying these changes (typically via mergemaster)
will cause your system to start running background checks on all
your soft update enabled filesystems (provided that you have
a kernel with the required functionality, e.g., one built since
the end of April). Please report any and all problems to
mckusick@mckusick.com (not mckusick@freebsd.org which I read
infrequently). See the comment above the fsck command in /etc/rc
for instructions on how to disable background checking should it
cause you too much trouble.
Several FAQs:
1) Can I reboot before the background checks are done?
Ans) Yes, when the system restarts the checks will pick up
where they left off.
2) Can a crash during checking corrupt my filesystem?
Ans) No, recovered resources are returned to the system using soft
updates which ensure that the freeing is done in a safe order.
3) How will I know if any background checks are being done?
Ans) Filesystems that are to be checked in background will be listed
as `DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING' at the usual fsck check time
during system startup.
4) What happens to the output of the background checks?
Ans) It is sent to syslog `daemon' facility log level `notice'.
5) When will this feature be available in the 4.X kernel?
Ans) Never. It is much too radical and extensive a change to be
MFC'ed. Besides, it needs many months of experience and
tuning before it is ready for widespread use.
6) What happens if a background fsck fails (i.e., fsck finds
errors that would normally require a manual fsck)?
Ans) The filesystem will be marked as needing a manual fsck.
At the next system reboot, the check will be done in
foreground and the usual actions taken (usually a failure
to go multi-user until fsck has been run by hand on the
affected filesystem).
freed by softupdates, ifconfig(8) accepts CIDR notation, rc(8) clean-out
of /var/run and /var/spool/lock, c89(1) is now a binary, pax(1)
enhancements and cpio(1)/tar(1) compatability, Ukranian language console
support.
Other: Update/make (more) consistent the list of WaveLAN devices
supported.
MFCs noted: ln(1) -h/-n, find(1) timestamp flags.
a LinkSys card here in the office where reading the station address
fails the first time, but works find afterwards. Without this, the
probe fails. I don't think this will negatively impact any existing
cards, but I want to confirm this before MFC'ing.
safe from preemption and concurrent access to the LDT.
- Move the prototype for i386_extend_pcb() to <machine/pcb_ext.h>.
Reviewed by: silence on -hackers
we need to delete the info from the list as well as zero out the res
pointer we saved in the code.
Also made a few style(9) changes while I was at it. Don't use if
(ptr) or if (!ptr), but compare against NULL. Compare against NULL
rather than 0. Don't have useless blocks.
There are likely other problems as well, but at least the wi based
wireless card with memory listed in its cis doesn't panic the system
when the card is inserted.
use TAILQ macros. The sk_attach_xmac() routine calls sk_init_xmac()
before doing the transceiver probe, but *before* ether_ifattach()
is called. This causes sk_init_xmac() to call sk_setmulti(), which
tries to do a TAILQ_FOREACH(), which it can't do because ether_ifattach()
hasn't done a TAILQ_INIT() yet. This causes a NULL pointer dereference
and panic in sk_setmulti() at driver load/initialization time.
Fixed by calling ether_ifattach() before the MII probe.
The code in RELENG_4 still uses the old way of enumerating the
multicast list and doesn't have this problem. Yet.
the null mount, we currently create a temporary mfs on /tmp, copy
/etc to /tmp, then mount /etc as mfs and copy everything back from
/tmp, then delete the /tmp mfs.
The patch eliminates the temporary /tmp mfs and the subsequent
copying and simply populates the /etc mfs by copying from
/conf/default/etc. This requires that /conf/default/etc contain a
complete copy of all the /etc stuff instead of just overrides. I
don't think that is too much of an extra step in setting up a
diskless environment.
* Provide the ability to make /tmp a memory filesystem independent
of /var. This removes the requirement that /tmp be a symlink to
/var/tmp and this makes the diskless code work with the default
filesystem layout. If a seperate /tmp memory filesystem is
created, the 'tmpsize' environment variable is used to determine
its size (default to 10 Meg).
* Reduce diffs between the -current and -stable versions of these
files to a bare minimum. Only the definition of the shell
function 'mount_md' is different.
Not Objected to by: -arch@, -small@
MFC after: 2 days
directly (except in the definition of MINUSLPAM in bsd.libnames.mk)
since it doesn't give all the libraries necessary for static linkage.
Fixed missing ${LIBPAM} in DPADD.
Fixed some style bugs in DPADD and LDADD.
directly (except in the definition of MINUSLPAM in bsd.libnames.mk)
since it doesn't give all the lbraries necessary for static linkage.
Fixed new and old bugs in DPADD. ${LIBPAM} was missing, and the
library order was different from that in LDADD so `make checkdpadd'
reported a non-bug.
