[Midnightbsd-cvs] src [7830] trunk/UPDATING: document some changes

laffer1 at midnightbsd.org laffer1 at midnightbsd.org
Tue Sep 6 20:12:24 EDT 2016


Revision: 7830
          http://svnweb.midnightbsd.org/src/?rev=7830
Author:   laffer1
Date:     2016-09-06 20:12:24 -0400 (Tue, 06 Sep 2016)
Log Message:
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document some changes

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/UPDATING

Modified: trunk/UPDATING
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--- trunk/UPDATING	2016-09-07 00:08:54 UTC (rev 7829)
+++ trunk/UPDATING	2016-09-07 00:12:24 UTC (rev 7830)
@@ -1,5 +1,35 @@
 Updating Information for MidnightBSD users.
 
+20160906:
+	Add support for the MosChip MCS9904 four serial ports
+	controller.
+
+	Add support for walltimestamp in DTrace.
+
+	Various gdb improvments.
+
+	ZFS
+	Import the zio nop-write improvement from Illumos. To reduce I/O,
+	nop-write omits overwriting data if the checksum (cryptographically
+	secure) of new data matches the checksum of existing data.
+	It also saves space if snapshots are in use.
+
+	It currently works only on datasets with enabled compression, disabled
+	deduplication and sha256 checksums.
+
+	Add loader(8) tunable to enable/disable nopwrite functionality:
+	vfs.zfs.nopwrite_enabled
+
+	Introduce a new dataset aclmode setting "restricted" to protect ACL's
+	being destroyed or corrupted by a drive-by chmod.
+
+	New loader-only tunables:
+	vfs.zfs.sync_pass_deferred_free
+	vfs.zfs.sync_pass_dont_compress
+	vfs.zfs.sync_pass_rewrite
+
+	chkgrp(8) add support for q flag
+
 20160905:
 	Add a resource limit for the total number of kqueues
 	available to the user. Kqueue now saves the ucred of the



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