Any thoughts on why MDK hasnt gone to the 2.4.20 kernel? its been out since Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, its a US holiday on November 26....HEHE. Rob
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme >> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:53 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ? >> >> >> On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:21 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: >> > >> XFS is a patch, supermount is a patch, lm_sensors is a patch >> > >> plus an accessory >> > >> rpm that is NEVER loaded by default (cause lm_sensors can >> kill certain >> > >> vulnerable notebooks down to a factory return for a new mobo). >> > >> I have no >> > >> idea what other patches are there or whether XFS has been >> > >> integrated into >> > >> mainstream by now, or what advanced features may have been >> > >> backported from >> > >> the 2.5 development tree. >> > >> > Ok, Thanks. How many people are using XFS with great success? >> (performance >> > increase, less dataloss, etc) >> > I have read reviews on it but ONLY in magazines giving a basic >> overview of >> > it, like on sysmag.com. I think the review was in my >> bookmarks email.... >> > Rob >> XFS is fast at everything but deleting files where it sucks >> major eggs. Even >> so in the aggregate it is beaten only by JFS. JFS has a problem >> in that it >> must be periodically defragged. Reiserfs is also fast and seems to work >> acceptably (finally). ext3 is the big loser--2/3 the speed of >> ext2 unless >> you run it in non-journaling mode, which is kinda pointless. >> >> NO journaling filesystem will help you with file security or >> data integrity; >> it will only help you recover it faster if it is recoverable >> (these days it >> usually is) >> >> The remarks on speed are from my own test routines on my own >> systems, timing >> the creation and deletion of 100,000 files in each filesystem and the >> updating that changed the sizes of those files randomly for a >> total of 50,000 >> updates which either doubled or halved file size. and finally >> copying files >> amountiong to 500Mb in chunks of 1Mb, 50 Mb and 167Mb... filecopy was >> weighted 5/9 while creation, deletion, 1/9 each and update 2/9. >> to arrive at >> the relative ratings, and really the three (JFS, XFS, and >> Reiser) were in >> their own group somewhat ahead of ext2 while ext3 was behind >> ext2 in speed. >> I was not perverse enough to try FAT32 for comparison, cause we >> have enough >> FUD and unprofessional comparisons around, and FAT32 is an >> extension of a >> filesystem that was originally designed for floppy. >> >> Civileme >> >> >>
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