[KLUG Members] Kernel 2.5.68

[Adam Williams]

>>>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

True, but they aren't in the kernel.  And rebuilding kernels bites.  Wide 
application support (nautilus, etc...) won't appear until it is a standard 
enabled feature.

Now that doesn't specifically have anything to do with ext2/3 (although 
one of the reasons it has taken so long is because ext2/3 took FOREVER to 
finally adopt ACLs and is the "default" filesystem),  I'm not a fan of 
ext2/3 for other reasons: fragmentation (despite whatever they say),  
trouble shrinking/growing while online, REALLY slow with large 
directories, and I'm sure I could come up with a couple more.

>>>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

It only gets better.  Now why is every M$ release 11% slower?!