FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2011
Introduction
This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March
2011. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2011. During this
quarter, the work was focused on releasing the new minor versions of
FreeBSD, 7.4 and 8.2, which were released in February 2011. Currently,
the project is starting to work on the next major version, 9.0.
Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 34 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.
Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period
between April and June 2011 is July 15th, 2011.
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Projects
* Bringing up OMAP3
* GEOM-based ataraid(4) Replacement -- geom_raid.
* HAST (Highly Available Storage)
* New FreeBSD Installer
* OpenAFS Port
* pfSense
* RCTL, aka Resource Containers
* ZFSv28 available in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT
FreeBSD Team Reports
* FreeBSD Bugbusting Team
* FreeBSD NYI Admins Status Report
* The FreeBSD Foundation Status Report
Network Infrastructure
* DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence
(DIFFUSE)
* Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD
Kernel
* Journaled Soft Updates
* Linux Compatibility Layer - DVB and V4L2 Support
Documentation
* New FreeBSD Handbook Section Covering HAST
* The FreeBSD German Documentation Project Status Report
* The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project
* Webcam and DVB Compatibility List
Architectures
* FreeBSD/arm on Marvell Raid-on-Chip
* FreeBSD/EC2
* FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ
* MIPS/Octeon Support and bootinfo
Ports
* FreeBSD as Home Theater PC
* FreeBSD Chromium
* FreeBSD Haskell Ports
* KDE-FreeBSD
* Linux Emulation Ports
* Portmaster
* Ports Collection
* www/apache22 Default
Miscellaneous
* BSDCan
Google Summer of Code
* Extfs Status Report
* Google Summer of Code 2011
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Bringing up OMAP3
Contact: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Contact: Mohammed Farrag <mfarrag@FreeBSD.org>
OMAP3 Emulation:
* Step #1: qemu-omap3 isn't ported to FreeBSD yet. So,
* Step #2: Use qemu-omap3 on Gentoo Host ..
* Step #3: Is the end reached ?! No, bcz qemu-omap3 is not full. So,
go to step #4.
* Step #4: Use Meego >> Download Ubuntu 10.10 >> Install it,
and
* Step #5: Compile FreeBSD kernel, Create root file system, mkimage,
Emulate using Meego.
Open tasks:
1. Device Drivers for OMAP3 Processors.
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BSDCan
URL: http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/
Contact: Dan Langille <dvl@FreeBSD.org>
Our list of talks has been settled, and the schedule is pretty much
finalized. There is still time to get into the Works In Progress
session.
Best to book your on-campus accommodation now. Or stay at one of the
nearby hotels.
Open tasks:
1. Show up. Enjoy. Profit.
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DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence (DIFFUSE)
URL: http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse/
URL: http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse/downloads.html
Contact: Sebastian Zander <szander@swin.edu.au>
Contact: Grenville Armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>
DIFFUSE is a system enabling FreeBSD's IPFW firewall subsystem to
classify IP traffic based on statistical traffic properties.
With DIFFUSE, IPFW computes statistics (such as packet lengths or
inter-packet time intervals) for observed flows, and uses ML (machine
learning) to classify flows into classes. In addition to traditional
packet inspection rules, IPFW rules may now also be expressed in terms
of traffic statistics or classes identified by ML classification. This
can be helpful when direct packet inspection is problematic (perhaps
for administrative reasons, or because port numbers do not reliably
identify applications).
DIFFUSE also enables one instance of IPFW to send flow information and
classes to other IPFW instances, which then can act on such traffic
(e.g. prioritise, accept, deny, etc.) according to its class. This
allows for distributed architectures, where classification at one
location in your network is used to control fire-walling or
rate-shaping actions at other locations.
DIFFUSE is a set of patches for FreeBSD-CURRENT. It can be downloaded
from the project's web site. The web site also contains a more
comprehensive introduction, including application examples, links to
related work and documentation.
In February 2011 we released DIFFUSE v0.2.2. This release contains a
number of bug fixes and new features. Most notably since version 0.2
there is a tool to build classifier models, and there is a feature
module and classifier model to classify Skype traffic.
We hope to release DIFFUSE v0.3 soon. Keep an eye on the freebsd-ipfw
and freebsd-net mailing lists for project-related announcements.
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Extfs Status Report
URL:
http://p4web.FreeBSD.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/soc2010/extfs/src/sy
s/fs/&c=rFV@//depot/projects/soc2010/extfs/src/sys/fs/ext2fs/?ac=83
URL:
http://p4web.FreeBSD.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/soc2010/ext4fs/src/s
ys/fs/&c=cc4@//depot/projects/soc2010/ext4fs/src/sys/fs/ext4fs/?ac=83
Contact: Zheng Liu <lz@FreeBSD.org>
I have implemented a reallocblks in ext2fs, like in ffs, and submitted
a patch file to mailing list. Next I will try to implement htree
directory index in ext2fs.
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Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD
URL: http://caia.swin.edu.au/freebsd/5cc/
URL: http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/
URL: http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/projects.shtml
URL:
http://FreeBSDfoundation.blogspot.com/2011/03/summary-of-five-new-tcp-c
ongestion.html
URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~lstewart/patches/5cc/
Contact: David Hayes <dahayes@swin.edu.au>
Contact: Lawrence Stewart <lastewart@swin.edu.au>
Contact: Grenville Armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>
Contact: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Bjoern Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
The project is now complete, with the following code available in the
svn head branch:
* Modular congestion control framework.
* Khelp (Kernel Helper) and Hhook (Helper Hook) frameworks.
* Basic Khelp/Hhook integration with the TCP stack.
* Enhanced Round Trip Time (ERTT) Khelp module.
* Modularised implementations of NewReno, CUBIC, H-TCP, Vegas,
Hamilton-Delay and CAIA-Hamilton-Delay congestion control
algorithms.
In addition to the code, a large set of documentation was committed
(see the following man pages: cc(4), cc_newreno(4), cc_cubic(4),
cc_htcp(4), cc_vegas(4), cc_hd(4), cc_chd(4), h_ertt(4), cc(9),
khelp(9), hhook(9)) and a technical report was released which evaluates
the computational overhead associated with TCP before and after the
project's changes.
A candidate patch to MFC the modular congestion control framework to
the 8-STABLE branch is ready for testing here. If you try the patch,
please send a note detailing your experience (positive or negative) to
Lawrence Stewart.
Thanks go to the FreeBSD Foundation for funding this work, to the
project's technical reviewers for providing detailed feedback, and to
all FreeBSD users who have provided testing feedback thus far.
Open tasks:
1. Test 8-STABLE MFC candidate patch and do the merge in time for
8.3-RELEASE.
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FreeBSD as Home Theater PC
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HTPC
Contact: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Juergen Lock <nox@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD could be a much better platform for a Home Theater PC than it
currently is. We are focusing on improving support for media center
applications by extending the major ports (MythTV, VDR, XBMC) and
creating some documentation to guide interested people.
In the last months we continued to work on HTPC relevant ports,
improved lirc and multimedia/webcamd remote control support. The last
missing major HTPC application VDR (Video Disk Recorder) has finally
been committed to the portstree as multimedia/vdr including 17 vdr
plugin ports.
Open tasks:
1. Improve remote control support in webcamd and with lirc.
2. Port more Media Center applications (Enna, me-tv, ...)
3. Create a small guide on how to build a great FreeBSD Home Theater
PC.
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FreeBSD Bugbusting Team
URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#gnats
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BugBusting
URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/
Contact: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Volker Werth <vwe@FreeBSD.org>
The bugmeister team is happy to welcome Eitan Adler (eadler@) as the
newest GNATS-only contributor. Eitan has been helping triage new bugs
as they come in, as well as making good progress on many of the older
bugs, closing duplicates and obsolete bugs and contacting submitters
for extra information where necessary. For the first time in a long
time we managed to get below 6000 open PRs, in no small part due to
Eitan's efforts. Welcome aboard!
PRs continue to be classified as they arrive, by adding 'tags' to the
subject lines corresponding to the kernel subsystem involved, or man
page references for userland PRs. Reports are generated from these
nightly, grouping related PRs into one place, sorted by tag or man
page. This allows an interested party working in one area or on one
subsystem to easily find related bugs and issues in the same area,
which has proven quite effective in getting some of the older bug
reports closed. These reports can all be found by following the third
link above.
We continue to look for ideas for other reports that may help improve
the PR closure rate. If you have any suggestions for reports which
would contribute positively to the way you work, please email
bugmeister@ and we shall try to produce such a report.
Our clearance rate of PRs, especially in kern and bin, seems to be
improving. The number of non-ports PRs has stayed almost constant since
the last status report.
As always, anybody interested in helping out with the PR queue is
welcome to join us in #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet. We are always
looking for additional help, whether your interests lie in triaging
incoming PRs, generating patches to resolve existing problems, or
simply helping with the database housekeeping (identifying duplicate
PRs, ones that have already been resolved, etc). This is a great way of
getting more involved with FreeBSD!
Open tasks:
1. Try to find ways to get more committers helping us with closing PRs
that the team has already analyzed.
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FreeBSD Chromium
URL: http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/chromium
URL: http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chromium
URL: http://www.chromium.org/Home
Contact: FreeBSD Chromium Team <chromium@FreeBSD.org>
Thanks to a great collaborative effort from the FreeBSD community, the
OpenBSD community, and the Chromium developers, Chromium has been
updated in the Ports tree.
In the spirit of release early and release often, updates to Chromium
happen frequently. The contributors of the FreeBSD Chromium team have
demonstrated great agility in keeping pace with updates in the
development repository hosted at
http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/chromium.
Open tasks:
1. A task that lies ahead is working with the Chromium developers at
integrating the FreeBSD patches into the codebase. Volunteers are
welcome.
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FreeBSD Haskell Ports
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Haskell
URL: https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell
URL: http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-haskell/
Contact: G?bor J?nos P?LI <pgj@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Giuseppe Pilichi <jacula@FreeBSD.org>
We are proud to announce that the FreeBSD Haskell team has updated GHC
to 7.0.3, and all other existing Haskell ports to the latest stable
versions, as well as added new ports. The total number of Haskell ports
in the FreeBSD repository is now more than 200. These ports are still
waiting to be committed. At the moment, they are available from FreeBSD
Haskell ports repository. Any users who would like to get early access
to them, please refer to the FreeBSD Haskell ports Call For Testing.
Open tasks:
1. Create a metaport for Haskell Platform.
2. Create a port for Happstack.
3. Create a port for gitit.
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FreeBSD NYI Admins Status Report
Contact: NYI Admins Team <nyi-admin@FreeBSD.org>
The FreeBSD.org site at New York Internet is progressing, though more
slowly than we had hoped. Due to problems with the old power
controllers and serial console servers, new equipment has been bought
by the FreeBSD Foundation. Installing the new equipment required
re-racking all the existing servers which was done by the local FreeBSD
team (Steven Kreuzer and John Baldwin).
For basic infrastructure at the site (such as DHCP, DNS, console etc.)
the FreeBSD Foundation bought some new servers which are in the process
of being configured.
The FreeBSD Ports team are currently using 9 of the NYI servers for
package building.
Open tasks:
1. We are looking for a storage system (15TB+) for keeping replicas of
all the main FreeBSD.org systems, a full ftp-archive mirror, site
local files etc.
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FreeBSD/arm on Marvell Raid-on-Chip
Contact: Grzegorz Bernacki <gjb@semihalf.com>
Contact: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
Marvell 88RC8180 is an integrated RAID-on-Chip controller, based on the
Feroceon 88FR331 CPU core (ARMv5TE). The 88RC9580 is a next generation
version, based on the Sheeva 88SV581 CPU core (ARMv6) of this
system-on-chip devices family.
Current FreeBSD suppport for 88RC8180 and 88RC9580 includes:
* Booting via U-Boot bootloader
* L1, L2 cache
* Serial console support (UART)
* Interrupt controller
* Integrated timers
* PCI Express (root complex and endpoint modes)
* Doorbells and messages
* Ethernet controller
Open tasks:
1. Complete, clean up, merge with HEAD.
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FreeBSD/EC2
URL: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/
Contact: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD is now able to run on t1.micro and cc1.4xlarge instances in the
Amazon EC2 cloud. FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE is stable subject to the
limitations of the instance type (e.g., running ZFS on a micro instance
with only 600 MB of RAM doesn't work very well), but FreeBSD 9.0 has
significant stability issues.
A list of available FreeBSD AMIs (EC2 machine images) appears on the
FreeBSD/EC2 status page.
Open tasks:
1. Bring FreeBSD to a wider range of EC2 instance types.
2. Completely rework the locking in head/sys/i386/xen/pmap.c to
eliminate races and make 9.0-CURRENT stable under
paravirtualization.
3. Track down several possibly-related problems with scheduling and
timekeeping.
4. Fix other issues shown on the FreeBSD/EC2 status page.
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FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ
Contact: Michal Dubiel <md@semihalf.com>
Contact: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
QorIQ is a brand of Power Architecture-based communications
microprocessors from Freescale. It is an evolutionary step from the
PowerQUICC platform (MPC85xx) and is built around one or more Power
Architecture e500/e500mc cores. This work is bringing up FreeBSD on
these system-on-chip devices along with device drivers for integrated
peripherials.
Current FreeBSD QorIQ support includes:
* QorIQ P2020 support
* Booting via U-Boot bootloader
* L1, L2 cache
* Serial console (UART)
* Interrupt controller
* Ethernet (TSEC, SGMII mode)
* I2C
* EHCI controller (no Transaction Translation Unit)
* Security Engine (SEC) 3.1
* PCI Express controller (host mode)
* Enhanced SDHC (no MMC support)
* Dual-core (SMP) support
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GEOM-based ataraid(4) Replacement -- geom_raid.
Contact: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: M. Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
A new RAID GEOM class (geom_raid) was added to FreeBSD 9-CURRENT, to
replace ataraid(4) in supporting various BIOS-based software RAIDs.
Unlike ataraid(4) this implementation does not depend on legacy ata(4)
subsystem and can be used with any disk drivers, including new
CAM-based ones (ahci(4), siis(4), mvs(4) and ata(4) with `options
ATA_CAM`). To make code more readable and extensible, this
implementation follows modular design, including a core part and two
sets of modules, implementing support for different metadata formats
and RAID levels.
Support for such popular metadata formats is now implemented: Intel,
JMicron, NVIDIA, Promise (also used by AMD/ATI) and SiliconImage.
Such RAID levels are now supported: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E, RAID10,
SINGLE, CONCAT.
For any all of these RAID levels and metadata formats this class
supports full cycle of volume operations: reading, writing, creation,
deletion, disk removal and insertion, rebuilding, dirty shutdown
detection and resynchronization, bad sector recovery, faulty disks
tracking, hot-spare disks. For Intel and Promise formats there is
support for multiple volumes per disk set.
See the graid(8) manual page for additional details.
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc. and iXsystems, Inc.
Open tasks:
1. Implement metadata modules for other formats (DDF, Highpoint, VIA,
...).
2. Implement transformation modules for other RAID levels (RAID5,
...).
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Google Summer of Code 2011
URL: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/freebsd
URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2011
Contact: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD is proud to be participating in our seventh year of Google
Summer of Code. On Monday, April 25th we accepted 17 proposals from an
overall excellent field. A full list of accepted proposals can be found
on the GSoC website. We look forward to working with these students
over the summer.
As we did last year we plan to ask students to submit weekly status
reports to the soc-status mailing list. Those wishing to keep up with
the work in progress and offer review may wish to subscribe.
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HAST (Highly Available Storage)
Contact: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Mikolaj Golub <trociny@FreeBSD.org>
HAST development is progressing nicely. Mikolaj Golub who contributes
to HAST is now a FreeBSD src committer. Some changes worth noting since
the last report:
* Compression of the data being sent over the network. This can speed
up especially synchronization process.
* Optional checksuming for the data being send over the network.
* Capsicum sandboxing for secondary node and hastctl.
* Chroot+setuid+setgid sandboxing for primary node.
* Allow administrators to specify source IP address for connections.
* When changing role wait for a while for the other node to switch
from primary to secondary to avoid split-brain.
* Many bug fixes.
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Journaled Soft Updates
Contact: Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
All known problems with journaled soft updates have been fixed in head.
If you have any problems while running with journaled soft updates,
please report them to us.
We have addressed several performance issues that have been brought to
our attention. If you have any performance problems while running with
journaled soft updates, please report them to us.
We have improved the recovery of resources when running with soft
updates on small (root) filesystems. We anticipate being able to use
soft updates for root filesystems in the 9.0 system.
We expect to have journaled soft updates default to enabled in the 9.0
system. We encourage users of -CURRENT to enable journaled soft updates
to help shake out any remaining performance problems and bugs.
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KDE-FreeBSD
URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org
Contact: KDE FreeBSD <kde-freebsd@kde.org>
The KDE on FreeBSD team have continued to improve the experience of KDE
and Qt under FreeBSD. The latest round of improvements include:
* Improved shared resources (i.e. pixmaps for KDE)
* Improved file monitoring (using kevent)
* Improved KSysGuard support (new and refined sensors)
The team have also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes and
patches. The latest round of releases include:
* Qt: 4.7.2
* KDE: 4.5.5; 4.6.1; 4.6.2
* KOffice: 2.3.3
* KDevelop: 4.2.0; 4.2.2 (KDevPlatform: 1.2.0; 1.2.2)
* many smaller ports
The team needs more testers and porters so please visit us at
kde-freebsd@kde.org
Open tasks:
1. Continue improvements of KSysGuard.
2. General maintenance.
3. General testing.
4. Porting.
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Linux Compatibility Layer - DVB and V4L2 Support
URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nox/dvb/
Contact: Juergen Lock <nox@FreeBSD.org>
Following (separate) discussions on the mailing lists I have made
patches to add DVB and V4L2 ioctl translation support to the Linux
compatibility layer, allowing Linux apps like SageTV, Skype, and Flash
to use DVB/ATSC tuners and webcams that previously only worked for
native FreeBSD apps. (Most of this hardware uses Linux drivers via the
multimedia/webcamd port.)
Open tasks:
1. Handle the remaining ioctls that (I think) are not used by DVB
tuners/cameras supported by webcamd (it only supports USB devices,
the unhandled ioctls mostly have to do with video overlays and
hardware MPEG2 decoding on analog or DVB tuners, features that
AFAIK don't exist on USB hardware.)
2. Make the DVB support a port because there were concerns putting it
in base due to the LGPL in one of the header files even though I
already separated out the code into an extra kld.
(linux_dvbwrapper.ko)
3. Get the patches polished and committed. :) (Until they are you can
check my DVB page and the freebsd-emulation@ mailing list for
updates.)
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Linux Emulation Ports
URL:
http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/02/25/howto-creating-your-own-update
d-linux-rpm-for-the-freebsd-linuxulator/
Contact: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Emulation Mailinglist <freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org>
Old linux_base ports (all which are not used by default in some
release) where marked as deprecated with a short expiration period. The
reason is that all those ports are long past their end of life and do
not receive security updates anymore. Unfortunately this is also true
for the linux_base ports which are still used by default in the
releases, but no replacement is available ATM (see open tasks).
The linux-f10-pango port was updated to a more recent version whoch
does not have a security problem by generating a linux-RPM in a VM with
"FreeBSD" as the vendor (see the links section for a HOWTO).
Open tasks:
1. Decide which RPM based linux distribution+version to track next for
the linux_base ports, create ports for it and test for
compatibility with our kernel code.
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MIPS/Octeon Support and bootinfo
Contact: Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net>
Working on improving support for Octeon processors and integrating with
other MIPS processor families. Currently working on support for the
standard MIPS bootinfo structure as a boot API (to supplement/replace
the Caviums-specific structure). Other Octeon improvements including
cleanups to CF and USB drivers to come.
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New FreeBSD Handbook Section Covering HAST
URL:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-hast.ht
ml
Contact: Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>
A new FreeBSD Handbook section covering the Highly Available STorage,
or HAST developed by Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been recently added. In
this section, you will learn what HAST is, how it works, which features
it provides and how to set it up. It also includes a working example on
how it can be used together with devd(8) and CARP. Enjoy your reading.
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New FreeBSD Installer
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BSDInstall
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/PCBSDInstallMerge
Contact: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>
On March 14th, sysinstall was replaced on the 9.0 snapshot media by a
new, modular installer called BSDInstall. This adds support for a wide
variety of new features while simplifying the installation process.
Testing before the 9.0 release will be very much appreciated -- CD and
memory stick images for a variety of platforms are linked from the
BSDInstall wiki page.
Interesting features:
* Install CD media are always live CDs
* Installations spanning multiple disks
* Wireless setup
* GPT disk formatting
* Virtualization friendly: can install from a live system onto disk
images
* Easily hackable and more modular than sysinstall
* Greater flexibility: shells available throughout the installation
Work is presently ongoing to integrate this installer with the backend
provided by pc-sysinstall (second wiki link).
Open tasks:
1. ZFS installation support.
2. IA64 disk setup.
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OpenAFS Port
URL: http://openafs.org
URL: http://web.mit.edu/freebsd/openafs/openafs.shar
Contact: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Contact: Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com>
AFS is a distributed network filesystem that originated from the Andrew
Project at Carnegie-Mellon University. The OpenAFS client
implementation has not been particularly useful on FreeBSD since the
FreeBSD 4.X releases. Work covered in previous reports brought the
OpenAFS client to a useful form on 9.0-CURRENT, though with some rough
edges. Since our last report, we have fixed several bugs that were
impacting usability, and we expect the upcoming 1.6.0 release to be
usable for regular client workloads (though not heavy load).
Accordingly, we have submitted packaging for inclusion in the Ports
Collection (PR ports/152467).
There are several known outstanding issues that are being worked on,
but detailed bug reports are welcome at port-freebsd@openafs.org.
Open tasks:
1. Update VFS locking to allow the use of disk-based client caches as
well as memory-based caches.
2. Track down races and deadlocks that may appear under load.
3. Integrate with the bsd.kmod.mk kernel-module build infrastructure.
4. Eliminate a moderate memory leak from the kernel module.
5. PAG (Process Authentication Group) support is not functional.
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pfSense
URL: www.pfsense.org
Contact: Scott Ullrich <sullrich@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Chris Buechler <cmb@pfsense.org>
Contact: Ermal Luci <eri@FreeBSD.org>
Work on 2.0 is rapidly coming to an end. We released RC1 around Feb 25
2011 and so far it seems to be rather stable. 2.0 is our first major
release in 2 years and almost all limitations of the previous version
has been overcome.
Open tasks:
1. Finish testing RC1 and certify for release.
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Portmaster
URL: http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html
Contact: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
The latest version of portmaster contains numerous improvements aimed
at large-scale enterprise users. Particularly, support for the
--index-only/--packages-only code has been significantly improved. Some
of the highlights include:
* New --update-if-newer option which takes a list of ports and/or a
glob pattern on the command line and only updates those that are
out of date. This feature is very useful for ensuring that the
packages needed for updating a system are all available and up to
date on the package building system.
* The portmaster.rc file can now be stored in the same directory as
the script itself, which aids in shared access to the script (for
example over an NFS mount)
* More features now work (or work better) with --index-only,
including --check-depends
Open tasks:
1. I have received some support for items E.2 and E.3 on the web page
listed above so I will be putting some effort into those areas in
the coming months. I also have in mind to split out the "fetch"
code to be its own script, in part to support goal E.2, and to
allow for more efficient parallelization when downloading multiple
distfiles (especially for multiple ports that download the same
distfile). This will also allow me to set a global limit for the
number of parallel fetches which should aid users on slow links.
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Ports Collection
URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/
URL:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/
URL: http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html
URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/portmgr/index.html
URL: http://blogs.FreeBSDish.org/portmgr/
URL: http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/
URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135441496471197
URL: http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/
Contact: Thomas Abthorpe <portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Port Management Team <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>
The ports tree slowly moves up closer to 23,000. The PR count still
remains at about 1000.
In Q1 we added 2 new committers, and took in 4 commit bits for safe
keeping.
After a year of serving as the team secretary, Thomas Abthorpe's
membership was upgraded to full voting status.
The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an ongoing
basis, verifying how base system updates may affect the ports tree, as
well as providing QA runs for major ports updates. Of note, -exp runs
were done for:
* erwin did a clang -exp run, and sent results to interested parties
* kde@ requested an -exp run for KDE 4.6.1 and Qt 4.7.2
* linimon -exp for update of default zope version to 3.2
* miwi performed the following -exp runs, make fetch-original, xorg,
cmake, pear, kde4 / py-qt / sip, and python2.7
* mm requested an -exp run to test the last GPLv2 version of gcc
4.2.2
* pav completed open-motif and mono -exp runs for respective
submitters
* ports/127214, -exp run to make copy/paste of portaudit user
friendly
* ports/144482, -exp run to fix package depends
* ports/152102, -exp run to make dirrmtry more friendly
* ports/152268, -exp run to update binutils
* ports/153539, -exp run to allow checking STRIP when WITH_DEBUG is
defined
* ports/153547, -exp run to remove NO_SIZE
* ports/153625, -exp run to pass CPPFLAGS to MAKE/CONFIGURE_ENV
* ports/153634, -exp run to remove redundant PKGNAMEPREFIX for
localised ports
* ports/154121, -exp run to use --title for new libdialog
* ports/154122, -exp run to update libtool to 2.4
* ports/154186, -exp to allow using linux 2.4 emulation on FreeBSD 8+
* ports/154390, -exp run to make fetching output copy/paste friendly
* ports/154653, -exp run to remove superfluous slash
* ports/154799, -exp run to update glib + gtk
* ports/154994, -exp run for MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN enhancements
* ports/155502, -exp run to remove sanity check for X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
* ports/155504, -exp run to remove USE_XPM from b.p.m.
* ports/155505, -exp run to update GNU m4
Open tasks:
1. Looking for help fixing ports broken on CURRENT.
2. Looking for help with Tier-2 architectures.
3. Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on testing,
committing and closing.
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RCTL, aka Resource Containers
Contact: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
Most of the code has already been merged into CURRENT. There are two
remaining problems I would like to solve before 9.0-RELEASE - see below
- but otherwise, the code is stable; please test and report any
problems. You will need to rebuild the kernel with "options RACCT"
and
"options RCTL". The rctl(8) manual page should be a good
introduction
on how to use it.
This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.
Open tasks:
1. Reimplementing %CPU accounting and CPU throttling.
2. Making jail rules persistent - right now, one cannot add jail rule
before that jail is created, which makes it impossible to put them
into /etc/rctl.conf; also, rules disappear when jail gets
destroyed.
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The FreeBSD Foundation Status Report
URL: http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org
Contact: Deb Goodkin <deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org>
We created our 2011 budget. Some of our plans for 2011 include spending
$125,000 on project development and $75,000 on equipment to build up
FreeBSD facilities in three locations.
We were proud to be a sponsor for AsiaBSDCon 2011 in Tokyo. We also
committed to sponsoring BSDCan 2011 in May, and EuroBSDCon 2011 in
October. The Foundation was also represented at SCALE in Los Angeles,
Indiana LinuxFest in Indianapolis, and Flourish in Chicago.
Completed Foundation-funded projects: Five New TCP Congestion Control
Algorithms project by Swinburne University and Resource Containers
project by Edward Napierala.
In February we visited companies in the Bay Area that use FreeBSD. Our
goal was to promote FreeBSD, better understand their interests and
needs, and help facilitate stronger relationships between these
companies and the Project. The presentations we gave included the
benefits of FreeBSD, Project road-map, potential areas of
collaboration, case studies, and how the Foundation supports the
project. By visiting in person we were able to show our commitment to
the Project and respond directly to questions and concerns they may
have had. We were pleased with the positive responses we received and
plan on visiting more companies in the future.
We are funding two new projects. The first project is Implementing
Support of GEM, KMS, and DRI for Intel Drivers by Konstantin Belousov.
The second is Improving the Maturity of IPv6 Support of FreeBSD and
PC-BSD by Bjoern Zeeb.
We continued our work on infrastructure projects to beef up hardware
for package-building, network-testing, etc. This includes purchasing
equipment as well as managing equipment donations.
Stop by and visit with us at BSDCan (May 13-14) and SouthEast LinuxFest
(June 10-12).
The work above as well as many other tasks we do for the project,
couldn't be done without donations. Please help us by making a donation
or asking your company to make a donation. We would be happy to send
marketing literature to you or your company. Find out how to make a
donation at http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/.
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The FreeBSD German Documentation Project Status Report
URL: http://doc.bsdgroup.de
Contact: Johann Kois <jkois@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
Benedict Reuschling contributed the translation of the new handbook
section about HAST, while Benjamin Lukas was working on the first
translation of the firewall chapter of the handbook. The committers to
the German Documentation Project were busy with keeping the existing
German documentation up-to-date. The website translations were also
kept in sync with the ones on FreeBSD.org.
We tried to re-activate committers who did not contribute for some time
but most of them are currently unable to free up enough time. We hope
to gain fresh contributor blood as we are getting occasional reports
about bugs and grammar in the german translation.
Open tasks:
1. Submit grammar, spelling or other errors you find in the german
documents and the website.
2. Translate more articles and other open handbook sections.
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The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project
URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja/
URL: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/doc-jp/
Contact: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Ryusuke Suzuki <ryusuke@FreeBSD.org>
The www/ja and doc/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook have constantly been
updated. During this period, translation of the handbook installation
page was finished. The following chapters are now synchronized with the
English version:
* introduction
* install
* ports
* x11
* desktop
* multimedia
* mirrors
* pgpkeys
Merging translation results from the www tree on a separate repository
for the translation work into the main tree was also finished. Since
outdated and/or non-translated documents also remain in both
doc/ja_JP.eucJP and www, further translation work is still needed. Some
progress has been made in the Porter's Handbook as well in this period.
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Webcam and DVB Compatibility List
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/WebcamCompat
Contact: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Webcam and DVB Compatibility List
This is the FreeBSD Webcam, DVB, and Remote Control Compatibility List.
The main goal of this page is to give an exact answer about which
application works with a given cam or DVB. Combinations of the hardware
and software mentioned in this table are known to work.
Please add more lines to the table or ask me to do so by just sending a
mail with your Cam/DVB information. Please note: you should only add
information you have seen working and not you may think of or imagine
that they could work. The contact information (name and/or email addr)
is optional.
Open tasks:
1. Move this to a real database in where FreeBSD enduser could self
insert their gadgets, like the FreeBSD Laptop Compat List.
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www/apache22 Default
URL:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~pgollucci/FreeBSD/prs/maintainers.html#apach
e
URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/147009
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Apache
URL:
http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/freebsd-apache/2011-March/002174.htm
l
Contact: Philip Gollucci <pgollucci@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Apache Apache <apache@FreeBSD.org>
95% done, pending final -exp run, and pulling the switch. HEADS-UP
announcement already sent to relevant lists. This will be for 8.3/9.0.
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ZFSv28 available in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT
Contact: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org>
ZFS v28 is now in HEAD! Test, test, test and test. Pretty please. New
features include:
* Data deduplication.
* Triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3).
* zfs diff.
* zpool split.
* Snapshot holds.
* zpool import -F. Allows to rewind corrupted pool to earlier
transaction group.
* Possibility to import pool in read-only mode.