svn commit: r190182 - head

[Ivan Voras]

Author: ivoras
Date: Fri Mar 20 21:51:27 2009
New Revision: 190182
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190182

Log:
  Note that GEOM_PART is on by default in 8-CURRENT and how it's different
  from older slices.
  
  OKed by:	marcel
  Approved by:	gnn (mentor)

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Fri Mar 20 21:50:54 2009	(r190181)
+++ head/UPDATING	Fri Mar 20 21:51:27 2009	(r190182)
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
 	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