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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2013-09-17 19:20:42 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2013-09-17 19:20:42 +0200
commit84cf9c0f312637b670cc87224ff7e7c4da659e36 (patch)
tree5e7f0f1f6c7579d1275bb5cf1856ce52767ac8b3 /NEWS
parent3e6aab0243da094f1ca05b80eb3e5a9adb8ea519 (diff)
Remove UFS support
It has been unused/untested/unmaintained for a decade now, and its 4-clause BSD licence poses problem. * configure.ac (default_static): Remove ufs. * Makefile (prog-subdirs): Remove ufs, ufs-fsck and ufs-utils. * NEWS, TODO: doc/hurd.texi, doc/navigating: Remove UFS notes. * ufs: Remove directory * ufs-fsck: Remove directory * ufs-utils: Remove directory * bsdfsck: Remove directory
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@@ -226,29 +226,17 @@ on an ext2fs filesystem.
Bugs in term and libtrivfs have been fixed, allowing emacs shell mode
to work cleanly. Other minor bugs have also been fixed.
-ufs and ext2fs now do directory search rotoring to speed repeated and
+ext2fs now does directory search rotoring to speed repeated and
sequential directory lookups.
-ufs now notes correctly if a disk cannot be written to and turns on
-the readonly flag automatically in this case. (Useful for floppies.)
-
-ufs statfs information (printed by df) should now be correct.
-
-A serious bug in ufs fsck when dealing with large directories has been
-fixed.
-
A new program `vminfo' prints the virtual memory map of task.
-All disk filesystems (ufs and ext2fs) now do directory name caching of
+All disk filesystems (ext2fs) now do directory name caching of
`..' which was not previously done. In addition, you can now set the
cache size to be large, and then do experiments and see what the cache
hit rate would have been for various smaller sizes. This should help
in optimizing the size of the cache.
-A port leak in the pager library has been fixed; previously ufs leaked
-two ports per file used until the kernel's limit (about 30,000) was
-reached.
-
6 August 1996
Version 0.0