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code and in the userland utilities that manipulate disk blocks. Note
that some parts of the system are not 64-bit disk block clean yet, so partition
larger than 2TB cannot be used at the moment.
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Large (>2^32-1 sectors) SCSI disk sizes now probed.
Thread support for the Objective-C library (libobjc).
carp
route handling has been fixed, solving some problems the routing daemons were exhibiting
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increase performance drastically, stateful passing more than twice as fast than before
a change in how the kernel random pool is stirred increases performance with network
interface cards that support interrupt mitigation a lot.
Install/Upgrade process changes:
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increase performance drastically, stateful passing more than twice as fast than before
a change in how the kernel random pool is stirred increases performance with network
interface cards that support interrupt mitigation a lot.
+ i386 TLB handling improved to avoid possible corruption on Core2Duo processors.
+ i386 and amd64 use the BIOS disk geometry when creating default disklabels.
+ default disk geometry changed from 64 heads/32 sectors to 255 heads/63 sectors.
+ more usb devices with various quirks coaxed to work.
+ Archive/Wangtek cartridge tape drives (wt*) no longer supported.
Install/Upgrade process changes:
! - Allow the specification of an NTP server during installation.
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- Allow no fsck'ing of clean non-root partitions during upgrade.
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- Check for INSTALL.<arch> to confirm sets are for the correct architecture.
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- Create and format the MSDOS partition for macppc installs in a more flexible and reliable way.
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