HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines
connected over the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary
(Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node is able to
handle I/O requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is limited to two
cluster nodes in total.
HAST operates on block level - it provides disk-like devices in /dev/hast/
directory for use by file systems and/or applications. Working on block level
makes it transparent for file systems and applications. There in no difference
between using HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All of them
are just regular GEOM providers in FreeBSD.
For more information please consult hastd(8), hastctl(8) and hast.conf(5)
manual pages, as well as http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: OMCnet Internet Service GmbH
Sponsored by: TransIP BV
Not only did these two drivers depend on IFF_NEEDSGIANT, they were
broken 7 months ago during the MPSAFE TTY import. if_ppp(4) has been
replaced by ppp(8). There is no replacement for if_sl(4).
If we see regressions in for example the ports tree, we should just use
__FreeBSD_version 800045 to check whether if_ppp(4) and if_sl(4) are
present. Version 800045 is used to denote the import of MPSAFE TTY.
Discussed with: rwatson, but also rwatson's IFF_NEEDSGIANT emails on the
lists.
control over the result of buildworld and installworld; this especially
helps packaging systems such as nanobsd
Reviewed by: various (posted to arch)
MFC after: 1 month
obsoleted by gpart(8). This avoids the following bugs in fdisk:
- initializing a disk without MBR bogusly emits the error:
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
- initializing a disk with or without MBR bogusly emits either:
fdisk: Class not found
or
fdisk: Geom not found: "XXX"
- the default geometry for non-ATA and non-SCSI disks is either
invalid or sub-optimizal.
managed from userspace. It is largely a wrapper for sysctl()
calls, but because the sysctls for adding and removing scripts
are awkward to use directly, this provides an easier-to-use
interface.
MFC after: 3 months
included man pages on how to use it. This code is still somewhat experimental
but has been successfully tested on a number of targets. Many thanks to
Danny for contributing this.
Approved by: re
It is no longer needed, because "mount -t reiserfs" calls nmount(2)
directly to mount a ReiserFS file system without the use of
this external mount program.
Approved by: dumbbell
- Connect geom_stripe and geom_nop modules to the build.
- Connect STRIPE and NOP classes to the LINT build.
- Disconnect gconcat(8) from the build.
Supported by: Wheel - Open Technologies - http://www.wheel.pl
not endian agnostic and thus will create big-endian GPTs on sparc64.
This we don't support. So, before gpt(8) can be used on a big-endian
machine, it has to deal with the endianness.
/sbin to /usr/sbin. A symlink from /sbin/nologin -> /usr/sbin/nologin
is created for compatibility purposes.
This will probably not cause any problems, but anyone who is doing
anything particularly unusual with nologin(8) or shells in general might
be well advised to check that everything still works.
Bikesheds on: cvs-all, current
This adds the former ports registered groups: proxy and authpf as well as
the proxy user. Make sure to run mergemaster -p in oder to complete make
installworld without errors.
This also provides the passive OS fingerprints from OpenBSD (pf.os) and an
example pf.conf.
For those who want to go without pf; it provides a NO_PF knob to make.conf.
__FreeBSD_version will be bumped soon to reflect this and to be able to
change ports accordingly.
Approved by: bms(mentor)
- Unify the conditional assignments section so that architectural
exclusions come first, then options and !options, sorted by the
option name, also in directory order, then architecture specific
sections, sorted by the architecture name, with i386 being a
traditional exception.
Prodded by: bde
The sconfig utility supports more than just cx boards, and those drivers
will make their way into FreeBSD shortly (maybe before 5.2).
Confirmed that this doesn't break the build.
Submitted by: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
Approved by: re@ <scottl>
