Author: gjb
Date: Fri Oct 21 16:11:29 2016
New Revision: 307732
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/307732
Log:
Document two errata items that may affect systems with ZFS
boot pools on GPT.
Submitted by: lidl
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml
Modified: stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml Fri Oct 21
15:23:54 2016 (r307731)
+++ stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml Fri Oct 21
16:11:29 2016 (r307732)
@@ -209,6 +209,44 @@ boot</screen>
<acronym>UEFI</acronym> mode, or choose the "GPT
+ Active" scheme.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[2016-10-21] Support for <literal>sha512</literal> and
+ <literal>skein</literal> checksumming has been added to the
+ <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem. This was not mentioned
+ in the release notes.</para>
+
+ <para>Systems being upgraded from earlier &os; releases with
+ <acronym>ZFS</acronym> will see a message in <literal>zpool
+ status</literal> output noting the pool is not at the
+ latest version, and some features may not be enabled.
+ Additional instructions on how to any <acronym>ZFS</acronym>
+ pools to the latest version and update the boot blocks for
+ all boot drives in the pool will also be provided in the
+ output.</para>
+
+ <para>This information is also documented is also documented
+ in <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>, which is
+ included if the <literal>src</literal> component is selected
+ during installation.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[2016-10-21] The size of the <acronym>GPT</acronym>
+ enabled <acronym>ZFS</acronym> boot blocks
+ (<filename>/boot/gptzfsboot</filename>) has increased past
+ 64K. Systems upgraded from older releases may experience
+ a problem where the size of the existing
+ "freebsd-boot" partition is too small to hold the
+ new <filename>gptzfsboot</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para>Systems where the boot partition is immediately followed
+ by the swap partition, such as those installed via
+ &man.bsdinstall.8;, can resize the swap partition slightly
+ using the &man.gpart.8; <literal>resize</literal> command,
+ so space can be reclaimed to increase the size of the
+ freebsd-boot partition.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
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