Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder
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"Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> writes:
Christoph> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:32:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds
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you _should_ also test this code out even before the freeze. The IDE layer shouldn't be all that scary any more, and while there are still silly things like trivially non-compiling setups etc, it's generally a good idea to try things out as widely as possible before it's getting too late to complain about things..
Christoph> What about the 64bit sector_t (aka >2TB blockdevice) Christoph> patches. IMHO they're a must-have for 2.6 (people already Christoph> ask for backporting them to 2.4..) and last time I check Christoph> Peter had a BK tree with nicely split changesets.
Indeed... And I'm trying to merge it all now into 2.5.40. Sorry I've been a bit slow --- testing, especially error testing when disks fill up, takes a long time (How long does it take to write 4 TB to a disk? About a day with the machines I have here. Multiply that by three (now four with XFS) filesystems to test...)
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Indeed... And I'm trying to merge it all now into 2.5.40. Sorry I've been a bit slow --- testing, especially error testing when disks fill up, takes a long time (How long does it take to write 4 TB to a disk? About a day with the machines I have here. Multiply that by three (now four with XFS) filesystems to test...)
With XFS, if you don't care about the file contents, you can create very larges (multi-TB) non-sparse files more or less instantly.
If you want code for this, let me know and I'll hack something together.
--cw