Recent Linux Kernel
2.6.27-rc8, "This One Should Be The Last One"
Posted from KernelTrap - 50 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"So yet another week, another -rc," began Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc8 Linux kernel. He continued, "this one should be the last one: we're certainly not running out of regressions, but at the same time, at some point I just have to pick some point, and on the whole the r... (original story)
2.6.27-rc6, "Things Are Calming Down"
Posted from KernelTrap - 68 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"The patches most people hopefully care about tend to be small details," noted Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc6 kernel. He continued, "and so more regressions should hopefully be closed now, some by just reverting the commits that caused breakage. I don't think anything special merits exp... (original story)
Tux3 Acting Like A Filesystem
Posted from KernelTrap - 77 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
Daniel Phillips noted that his new Tux3 versioning filesystem is now operating like a filesystem, "the last burst of checkins has brought Tux3 to the point where it undeniably acts like a filesystem: one can write files, go away, come back later and read those files by name. We can see some of the ... (original story)
2.6.27-rc5, Fixing Regressions
Posted from KernelTrap - 80 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds announced the 2.6.27-rc5 Linux Kernel, noting that his "weekly releases" tend to happen every eight days, adding, "the bulk of it is all config updates, and with arm and powerpc leading the pack." Linus continued: "While the config updates amount to about three quarters of the diff, ... (original story)
2.6.27-rc4, "Random Stuff All Over"
Posted from KernelTrap - 86 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"Another week, another -rc," began Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc4 Linux kernel, continuing, "this time the diffstat is almost totally dominated by the addition of the musb driver that drives the MUSB and TUSB controllers integrated into omap2430 and davinci. That, together with the remova... (original story)
AXFS, Advanced Execute In Place Filesystem
Posted from KernelTrap - 90 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"I'd like to get a first round of review on my AXFS filesystem," began Jared Hulbert, describing his new Advanced XIP File System for Linux. XIP stands for eXecute-In-Place. The new filesystem received quite a bit of positive feedback. Jared offered the following description: "This is a simple re... (original story)
Git 1.6.0 Released
Posted from KernelTrap - 93 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"The latest feature release GIT 1.6.0 is available at the usual places," began Git maintainer, Junio Hamano, announcing the latest stable release of the distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds. Among the current changes, Junio noted, "with the default Makefile settin... (original story)
64-bit Application Thread Creation Performance
Posted from KernelTrap - 93 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
A recent discussion on the Linux Kernel mailing list noted that threaded 64-bit applications suffer a drastic slowdown in pthread_create performance when stack utilization goes above 4GB. Ingo Molnar offered an explanation of the problem, "unfortunately MAP_32BIT use in 64-bit apps for stacks was a... (original story)
Tux3 Hierarchical Structure
Posted from KernelTrap - 97 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"It is about time to take a step back and describe what I have been implementing," began Daniel Phillips, referring to his new Tux3 filesystem. He provided a simple ASCII diagram that detailed the filesystem's hierarchical structure, describing each of the elements. About one he noted, "the volume... (original story)
Highlighting Interesting Mailing List Discussions
Posted from KernelTrap - 98 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
New functionality has been enabled that allows logged-in users to highlight interesting mailing list discussions. This new feature has been provided out of necessity, as I'm finding myself with insufficient time of late for keeping up with the many mailing lists I track to post articles on KernelTr... (original story)
2.6.27-rc3, "Things Really _Have_ Calmed Down"
Posted from KernelTrap - 98 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"Things really _have_ calmed down, and hopefully we've also resolved a lot of the regressions in -rc3," began Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc3 Linux kernel. He noted that much of the patch size was from the inclusion of the new ath9k wireless driver, with much of the rest of the patch size... (original story)
LVM Snapshot Merging
Posted from KernelTrap - Kernel news 102 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
Mikulas Patocka announced new patches introducing snapshot merging for the Linux kernel's logical volume manager. He explained, "snapshot merging allows you to merge snapshot content back into the original device. The most useful use for this feature is the possibility to rollback [the] state of th... (original story)
Btrfs 0.16, Improved Scalability And Performance
Posted from KernelTrap - Kernel news 103 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"Btrfs v0.16 is available for download," began Chris Mason, announcing the latest release of his new Btrfs filesystem. He noted, "v0.16 has a shiny new disk format, and is not compatible with filesystems created by older Btrfs releases. But, it should be the fastest Btrfs yet, with a wide variety ... (original story)
Comparing HAMMER And Tux3
Posted from KernelTrap - Kernel news 104 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"The big advantage Hammer has over Tux3 is, it is up and running and released in the Dragonfly distro," began Daniel Phillips, offering a comparison between the two filesystem. He continued, "the biggest disadvantage is, it runs on BSD, not Linux, and it so heavily implements functionality that is ... (original story)
2.6.27-rc2, "A Lot Of Random Changes"
Posted from KernelTrap - Kernel news 104 days ago
Linux : Linux Kernel
"So it's been a week since -rc1, and -rc2 is out there," began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc2 Linux kernel. He noted, "there's a lot of random changes in there, and I'm hoping we're starting to calm down, but one particular _kind_ of random change is probably worth pointing... (original story)
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