Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:04:21 +0100 |
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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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