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authorBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-03 23:03:45 +0000
committerBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-03 23:03:45 +0000
commitf97a7ce4a491b6a684923ebc8885cee0ac492e14 (patch)
tree8456525338555b0040bb01205c71d2230a27e9b9
parentbf1e70b2302d1305f5350092ec9c125b4c2905d0 (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml26
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml26
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 5d82a5213687..6cef4a4c61b9 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<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>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 5d82a5213687..6cef4a4c61b9 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<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>