Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:47:48 +0200 | From | Eric Valette <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.22 timeline was RE: 2.4.21-rc7 ACPI broken |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:40:54AM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > >>... >>I would personnally suggest that you classify the things using the >>following filter : >> a) Server (SMP, SCSI, RAID, journaling filesystems, ...), >> b) laptop (ACPI, CPUFREQ, Software suspend, IDE power save,...), >> c) desktop (File system efficiency, new hardware support,...), >> d) all systems >>... > > > Why are journaling filesystems only for servers? > Is file system efficiency not relevant on servers?
I was just making suggestions after a 30s thinking. Side comments, readding this mailling list, I had the impression that journaling and filesystem performance do not seem to mix well. Also on server, you have probably extra backup hardware and means (e.g RAID, DAT, DLT, ...)
> The important sections are more likely (ordered by priority): > - bug fixes (e.g. aic7xxx) > - support for additional hardware (e.g. ACPI update) > - new features (e.g. XFS)
Personnaly, I dislike this approach as it as resulted in 2.4 being non usable for servers (SMP deadlocks, IO stalls, unresponsiveness for several seconds, ...) and laptop (ACPI)...
> The important thing is that this is inside a stable kernel series and an > update that makes things better for 100 people but makes things worse > for one person is IMHO bad since it's a regression for one person.
If 2.4 kernel is not usable without patching, It is far worse for me...
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