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New release notes: adduser(8)/rmuser(8) and the Great Perl Rewrite,

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dump(8) -L.

Modified release notes: DEVICE_POLLING for nge(4) [1], clarification
of some UFS2 items, Perl distribution in sysinstall.

Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> [1]
Approved by:	re (implicitly)
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Bruce A. Mah 2002-12-03 23:03:45 +00:00
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<varname>kern.polling.user_frac</varname> sysctl indicating
the percentage of CPU time to be reserved for userland. The
devices initially supporting polling are &man.dc.4;,
&man.fxp.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in
&man.fxp.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in
the &man.polling.4; manual page. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">The packet-forwarding performance of certain
@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
command can be used to mount these disks.</para>
<para>Basic support has been added for the UFS2 filesystem.
Among its features:
Among the new features of UFS2:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@ -1593,7 +1593,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
UFS1 remains the default on-disk format, although UFS2 can be
selected as an option in &man.newfs.8; or via the partitioning
screen in &man.sysinstall.8;. 64-bit platforms can boot from
UFS2 root filesystems.</para>
</sect3>
@ -2245,6 +2248,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>Support for creating &man.a.out.5; format executables with
the base system compiler toolchain has been removed.</para>
<para>&man.adduser.8; and &man.rmuser.8; are now &man.sh.1;
scripts, rather than Perl scripts.</para>
<para role="historic">If the first argument to &man.ancontrol.8; or
&man.wicontrol.8; doesn't start with a <literal>-</literal>, it
is assumed to be an interface. &merged;</para>
@ -2466,6 +2472,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">&man.dump.8; now supports inheritance of the
<literal>nodump</literal> flag down a hierarchy. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports a <option>-L</option> flag for
dumping live UFS and UFS2 filesystems safely. To obtain a
consistent dump image, &man.dump.8; takes a snapshot of the
filesystem and performs the dump on the snapshot. The snapshot
is removed when the dump is complete.</para>
<para role="historic">The <option>-T</option> option to &man.dump.8; no longer
swallows an extra argument. &merged;</para>
@ -3948,7 +3960,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para><application>Perl</application> has been removed from the
&os; base system. It can still be installed from the &os;
Ports Collection or as a binary package; moving it out of the
Ports Collection, as a binary package, or via the <guimenuitem>Perl
distribution</guimenuitem> item in &man.sysinstall.8;'s
distribution menu.
Moving Perl out of the
base system will make future upgrades and maintenence easier.
To reduce the dependence of the base system on
Perl, many utilities have been
@ -3956,8 +3971,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
made for each affected utility).
<note>
<para>The Perl removal and
package integration work is ongoing.</para>
<para>The Perl script removal work is ongoing.</para>
</note>
</para>

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<varname>kern.polling.user_frac</varname> sysctl indicating
the percentage of CPU time to be reserved for userland. The
devices initially supporting polling are &man.dc.4;,
&man.fxp.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in
&man.fxp.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in
the &man.polling.4; manual page. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">The packet-forwarding performance of certain
@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
command can be used to mount these disks.</para>
<para>Basic support has been added for the UFS2 filesystem.
Among its features:
Among the new features of UFS2:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@ -1593,7 +1593,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
UFS1 remains the default on-disk format, although UFS2 can be
selected as an option in &man.newfs.8; or via the partitioning
screen in &man.sysinstall.8;. 64-bit platforms can boot from
UFS2 root filesystems.</para>
</sect3>
@ -2245,6 +2248,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>Support for creating &man.a.out.5; format executables with
the base system compiler toolchain has been removed.</para>
<para>&man.adduser.8; and &man.rmuser.8; are now &man.sh.1;
scripts, rather than Perl scripts.</para>
<para role="historic">If the first argument to &man.ancontrol.8; or
&man.wicontrol.8; doesn't start with a <literal>-</literal>, it
is assumed to be an interface. &merged;</para>
@ -2466,6 +2472,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">&man.dump.8; now supports inheritance of the
<literal>nodump</literal> flag down a hierarchy. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports a <option>-L</option> flag for
dumping live UFS and UFS2 filesystems safely. To obtain a
consistent dump image, &man.dump.8; takes a snapshot of the
filesystem and performs the dump on the snapshot. The snapshot
is removed when the dump is complete.</para>
<para role="historic">The <option>-T</option> option to &man.dump.8; no longer
swallows an extra argument. &merged;</para>
@ -3948,7 +3960,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para><application>Perl</application> has been removed from the
&os; base system. It can still be installed from the &os;
Ports Collection or as a binary package; moving it out of the
Ports Collection, as a binary package, or via the <guimenuitem>Perl
distribution</guimenuitem> item in &man.sysinstall.8;'s
distribution menu.
Moving Perl out of the
base system will make future upgrades and maintenence easier.
To reduce the dependence of the base system on
Perl, many utilities have been
@ -3956,8 +3971,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
made for each affected utility).
<note>
<para>The Perl removal and
package integration work is ongoing.</para>
<para>The Perl script removal work is ongoing.</para>
</note>
</para>