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Note that GEOM_PART is on by default in 8-CURRENT and how it's different

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from older slices.

OKed by:	marcel
Approved by:	gnn (mentor)
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ivoras 2009-03-20 21:51:27 +00:00
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@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW:
to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run
ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
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.
20090319:
The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface