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SubjectRe: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1
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On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:23 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/
>
>
> - Added bk-xfs to the -mm "external trees" lineup.
>
> - Added the Linux Trace Toolkit (and hence relayfs). Mainly because I
> haven't yet taken as close a look at LTT as I should have. Probably neither
> have you.
>
> It needs a bit of work on the kernel<->user periphery, which is not a big
> deal.
>
> As does relayfs, IMO. It seems to need some regularised way in which a
> userspace relayfs client can tell relayfs what file(s) to use. LTT is
> currently using some ghastly stick-a-pathname-in-/proc thing. Relayfs
> should provide this service.
>
> relayfs needs a closer look too. A lot of advanced instrumentation
> projects seem to require it, but none of them have been merged. Lots of
> people say "use netlink instead" and lots of other people say "err, we think
> relayfs is better". This is a discussion which needs to be had.
>
> - The 2.6.10-mm3 announcement was munched by the vger filters, sorry. One of
> the uml patches had an inopportune substring in its name (oh pee tee hyphen
> oh you tee). Nice trick if you meant it ;)
>
> - Big update to the ext3 extended attribute support. agruen, tridge and sct
> have been cooking this up for a while. samba4 proved to be a good
> stress test.
>
> - davej's "2.6 post-Halloween features" document has been added to -mm as
> Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt in the hope that someone will review it
> and help keep it up-to-date.
>
> - Added FUSE (filesystem in userspace) for people to play with. Am agnostic
> as to whether it should be merged (haven't read it at all closely yet,
> either), but I am impressed by the amount of care which has obviously gone
> into it. Opinions sought.

i really believe fuse is a good thing to have merged, i use it, and it
works really really good. my vote is to get it in

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