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SubjectRe: Linux-2.1.92 - Feature Freeze
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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998 02:52:26 -0500, you wrote:

> From: Paul Rusty Russell <Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au>
> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 13:31:55 +0930
>
> What about ext2 compression? It's been around for ages, it's stable,
> and I can't do kernel development without it (I only have a laptop).
>
> This has come up before, and it seems a popular feature.
>
>The latest version of ext2 compression (which plays nicely with other
>future ext2 extensions) is only a few weeks old at this point, and isn't
>quite stable yet. When it gets stable, we can have a negotiation about
>whether it goes into 2.2, but with the feature fereze starting, my
>guess is that it won't quite make it...

The latest versions of the VM & TCP code is also only a few weeks old at this
point and isn't quite stable yet, but will make it into the 2.2 kernel. That
argument doesn't cut it for me.

I was quite happy with the VM & TCP performance in 2.0 and earlier 2.1 kernels,
because I didn't push them to the limits, but I push disk space to the limits on
every machine.

To me, standardised EXT2 compression would be a major gain over 2.0.

Steve Ireland

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