[KLUG Members] Kernel 2.5.68

[Peter Buxton]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 05:45:42AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > Where is the 2.4 XFS .config option? in 2.5.x it's CONFIG_XFS_FS. Also,
> > CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL is gone, probably because it's integrated in 2.5.x.
> 
> Sweet! Die ext2 die!  Forks and ACLs, finally, and there I thought hell
> was going to actually freeze over.

Um, dude, ext2/3 has been adapted to use POSIX ACLs. :-P

> > Kernel Preemption: in 2.5.x. RH's 2.4 has the complementary low-latency
> > patch.
> 
> And the performance of RH9 seems noticeable more zesty than RH8.

Actually, in order to use preemption properly, it helps to bust up the
kernel locks; which is why ll and preempt patches merged

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