From da86af2815569084a8340d10960d3f34d5fc0937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andriy Gapon Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:29:33 +0000 Subject: Add an UPDATING entry for the posix_fallocate/ZFS change, r325320 --- UPDATING | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPDATING') diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 7cd3e3d9d988..2a8946c7786a 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** +20171106: + The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS + has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL + when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the + standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it. + One known victim is lld prior to r325420. + 20171102: Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object directories now rather than store files in the current directory if -- cgit v1.2.3