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New release notes: root filesystem on a SCSI CDROM, filesystem

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bugs fixed.

MFCs noted:  em(4), faith(4) loadable/unloadable/clonable,
sis(4) VLAN support, interface capabilities, IP address hash
table, syn cache, newfs(8) defaults.
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Bruce A. Mah 2001-12-15 06:48:18 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
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support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544 Gigabit
Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports transmit/receive
checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543 and 82544-based
adapters.</para>
adapters. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.faith.4; device is now loadable, unloadable, and
clonable.</para>
clonable. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">Support for Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based Ethernet
PC-Cards has been added back in the &man.fe.4; driver. &merged;</para>
@ -558,8 +558,8 @@
<para>Added support for PCI Ethernet adapters based on the
National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset, including the NetGear
FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver. &merged;
This device has support for VLANs.</para>
FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver.
This device has support for VLANs. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The snc driver for the National Semiconductor
DP8393X (SONIC) Ethernet controller has been added. Currently,
@ -597,11 +597,11 @@
<para>The per-interface <varname>ifnet</varname> structure now
has the ability to indicate a set of capabilities supported by a
network interface, and which ones are enabled. &man.ifconfig.8;
has support for querying these capabilities.</para>
has support for querying these capabilities. &merged;</para>
<para>Performance with hosts having a large number of IP aliases
has been improved, by replacing the per-interface
<varname>if_inaddr</varname> linear list with a hash table.</para>
<varname>if_inaddr</varname> linear list with a hash table. &merged;</para>
<para>Network devices now automatically appear as special files in
<filename>/dev/net</filename>. Interface hardware ioctls (not
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the connection as usual. This so-called
<quote>syncache</quote> makes a host much more resistant to
TCP-based Denial of Service attacks. Work on this feature was
sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs.</para>
sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug in the TCP implementation, which could cause
connections to stall if a sender saw a zero-sized window, has
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<para>The virtual memory subsystem now backs UFS directory
memory requirements by default (this behavior is controlled via
the <varname>vfs.vmiodirenable</varname> sysctl variable. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug that prevented the root filesystem from being
mounted from a SCSI CDROM has been fixed (ATAPI CDROMs were
always supported). &merged;</para>
<para>A number of bugs in the filesystem code, discovered
through the use of a filesystem test tool, have been fixed.
Under certain circumstances (primarily related to use of NFS),
these bugs could cause data corruption or kernel panics.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
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by &man.newfs.8; are now 16384 and 2048 bytes, respectively (the
old defaults were 8192 and 1024 bytes). This change generally
provides increased performance, at the expense of some wasted disk
space.</para>
space. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now has the ability to ability to compress
log files using &man.bzip2.1;. &merged;</para>

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support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544 Gigabit
Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports transmit/receive
checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543 and 82544-based
adapters.</para>
adapters. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.faith.4; device is now loadable, unloadable, and
clonable.</para>
clonable. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">Support for Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based Ethernet
PC-Cards has been added back in the &man.fe.4; driver. &merged;</para>
@ -558,8 +558,8 @@
<para>Added support for PCI Ethernet adapters based on the
National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset, including the NetGear
FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver. &merged;
This device has support for VLANs.</para>
FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver.
This device has support for VLANs. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The snc driver for the National Semiconductor
DP8393X (SONIC) Ethernet controller has been added. Currently,
@ -597,11 +597,11 @@
<para>The per-interface <varname>ifnet</varname> structure now
has the ability to indicate a set of capabilities supported by a
network interface, and which ones are enabled. &man.ifconfig.8;
has support for querying these capabilities.</para>
has support for querying these capabilities. &merged;</para>
<para>Performance with hosts having a large number of IP aliases
has been improved, by replacing the per-interface
<varname>if_inaddr</varname> linear list with a hash table.</para>
<varname>if_inaddr</varname> linear list with a hash table. &merged;</para>
<para>Network devices now automatically appear as special files in
<filename>/dev/net</filename>. Interface hardware ioctls (not
@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
the connection as usual. This so-called
<quote>syncache</quote> makes a host much more resistant to
TCP-based Denial of Service attacks. Work on this feature was
sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs.</para>
sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug in the TCP implementation, which could cause
connections to stall if a sender saw a zero-sized window, has
@ -948,6 +948,15 @@
<para>The virtual memory subsystem now backs UFS directory
memory requirements by default (this behavior is controlled via
the <varname>vfs.vmiodirenable</varname> sysctl variable. &merged;</para>
<para>A bug that prevented the root filesystem from being
mounted from a SCSI CDROM has been fixed (ATAPI CDROMs were
always supported). &merged;</para>
<para>A number of bugs in the filesystem code, discovered
through the use of a filesystem test tool, have been fixed.
Under certain circumstances (primarily related to use of NFS),
these bugs could cause data corruption or kernel panics.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@ -1865,7 +1874,7 @@
by &man.newfs.8; are now 16384 and 2048 bytes, respectively (the
old defaults were 8192 and 1024 bytes). This change generally
provides increased performance, at the expense of some wasted disk
space.</para>
space. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now has the ability to ability to compress
log files using &man.bzip2.1;. &merged;</para>