[KLUG Advocacy] 2.6 impressions?

[Adam Williams]

> > Anyone out there trying out the 2.6pre series. If so, any impressions?  
> 2.6.0-test1 here:
> Athlon 900 MHz
> 256 MB RAM
> VIA something mobo (Asus?)
> Promise 2026x ATAPI 100
> Voodoo 3000
> It's stable. I've had only one problem, when I tried ripping
> (cdparanoia) from an ATAPI drive under the IDE-SCSI interface. I got a
> number of errors I didn't get under pure ATAPI. (The only reason I had
> IDE-SCSI up in the first place was to use cdrecord, which, oddly enough,
> worked fine.)
> Your big problems will be underused architectures, i.e., non-intel.
> Data corruption: I'm using ext3 and Reiser 3.6 without problems.  pppd
> works fine.

Are you using LVM or fixed partitions?

Do setfacl/getfacl work on the ext3 filesystem?

Do you notice any change in SWAP utilization?

>  If you run BIND9, you'll see: 
> process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT 
> but it works fine.

Interesting.  It appears that SO_BSDCOMPAT is still defined in
asm/socket.h but no longer in the kernel, so it is just a sync issue
between packages.