svn commit: r48062 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Tue Jan 19 00:55:39 2016
New Revision: 48062
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48062
Log:
Add nosh entry from Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Mon Jan 18 23:03:30 2016 (r48061)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Tue Jan 19 00:55:39 2016 (r48062)
@@ -4109,4 +4109,120 @@
</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat="proj">
+ <title>The nosh Project</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Jonathan</given>
+ <common>de Boyne Pollard</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html">Introduction</url>
+ <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/FreeBSD-binary-packages.html">&os; binary packages</url>
+ <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/timorous-admin-installation-how-to.html">Installation How-To</url>
+ <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/roadmap.html">Roadmap</url>
+ <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/commands.html">Commands</url>
+ <url href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/guide/index.html">A Slightly Outdated User Guide</url>
+ <url href="https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/">The Supervision Mailing List</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The nosh project is a suite of system-level utilities for
+ initializing, running, and shutting down BSD systems, and for
+ managing daemons, terminals, and logging. It supersedes BSD
+ <tt>init</tt> and the NetBSD <tt>rc.d</tt> system, drawing
+ inspiration from Solaris SMF for named milestones,
+ daemontools-encore for service control/status mechanisms,
+ UCSPI, and IBM AIX for separated service and system
+ management. It comprises a range of compatibility mechanisms,
+ including shims for familiar commands from other systems, and
+ an automatic import mechanism that takes existing
+ configuration data from <tt>/etc/fstab</tt>,
+ <tt>/etc/rc.conf{,.local}</tt>, <tt>/etc/ttys</tt>, and
+ elsewhere, applying them to its native service definitions and
+ creating additional native services. It is portable
+ (including to Linux) and composable, it provides a migration
+ path from the world of systemd Linux, and it does not require new
+ kernel APIs. It provides clean service environments,
+ orderings and dependencies between services, parallelized
+ startup and shutdown (including <tt>fsck</tt>), strictly
+ size-capped and autorotated logging, the service manager as a
+ "subreaper", and uses <tt>kevent(2)</tt> for
+ event-driven parallelism.</p>
+
+ <p>Since the last status report, in October 2015, the project
+ has seen: the complete replacement of its event-handling subsystem
+ on Linux; the introduction of tools for exporting cyclog/multilog
+ logs via RFC 5426 to remote log handlers (such as logstash); and
+ the switching of the user-mode virtual terminal subsystem on BSD
+ to using USB devices directly, a more powerful device interface
+ than sysmouse et al. because it permits directly positioning touch
+ devices for mice and other things (thus permitting "mouse
+ integration" under VirtualBox for those who run PC-BSD/&os;
+ on VirtualBox virtual machines), but sysmouse et al. can still be
+ used if desired.</p>
+
+ <p>In version 1.24, released shortly before publication of
+ this report, there are extensive additions for supporting a
+ purely-ZFS system with an empty <tt>/etc/fstab</tt> (as the PC-BSD
+ 10.2 system installer creates), and the ability to convert
+ <tt>systemd</tt> unit files' process priority settings to BSD's
+ rtprio/idprio. </p>
+
+ <p>Version 1.24 also sees a large chunk taken out of the
+ remainder of the on-going project to create enough native service
+ bundles and ancillary utilities to entirely supplant the rc.d
+ system. The progress of this project has been open from the
+ start, and can be followed on the nosh roadmap web page. As of
+ version 1.24, there are a mere 27 items remaining out of the
+ original target list of 157, with a 28th and a 29th (from PC-BSD
+ 10.2) added. Items crossed off by version 1.24 include (amongst
+ others) <tt>mfs</tt> support for <tt>/tmp</tt>, static ARP and
+ networking, persistent "entropy" for the randomness
+ subsystem, <tt>pefs</tt>, and <tt>hald</tt>.</p>
+
+ <p>The remaining items in the task list are mostly aimed at
+ making the overall system integration cleaner and friendlier to
+ modern systems. We're also interested in receiving suggestions,
+ bug reports, and other feedback from users; try following the
+ how-to guide and see how things go!</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>Add kernel support for passing a <tt>-b</tt> option to
+ pid 1, and support for a <tt>boot_bare</tt> variable in the loader,
+ to allow "emergency" (where even no shell dotfiles
+ are loaded) and "rescue" mode bootstraps, akin to
+ Linux. (History: The <tt>-b</tt> mechanism and idea date
+ back to version 2.57d of Miquel van Smoorenburg's System 5
+ init clone, dated 1995-12-03, and was already known as
+ "emergency boot" by 1997.)</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Add support to &os;'s <tt>fsck(8)</tt> for outputting
+ machine-readable progress reports to a designated file
+ descriptor, so that <tt>nosh</tt> can provide progress bars
+ for multiple <tt>fsck</tt>s running in parallel.
+ <tt>nosh</tt> already provides this functionality on Linux,
+ where <tt>fsck(8)</tt> does provide machine-readable
+ output.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Identify when the configuration import system needs to be
+ triggered, such as when <tt>bsdconfig</tt> alters
+ configuration files, and create the necessary hooks to
+ import external configuration changes into nosh.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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