just a thought...
Why is there such concern over which kernel has a small performance regression in it(iin a not for production use FS no less)? Can you not upgrade kernels in ubuntu/fedora/suse/etc? Does a vanilla kernel not work? If 2.6.35 is bad for the default FS of ubuntu/$DISTRO surely they would ship 2.6.34 or some other version? If you don't like changes, run one of the long term kernels, take your pick of older kernels listed as stable on http://www.kernel.org/ 2.6.34.x, 2.6.33.x, 2.6.27.x All of these receive backported fixes for bugs and security issues.
I'm sure i'm missing something as i switched to Gentoo some 7 years ago, as I grumpy at not being able to use a vanilla kernel with some DRM patches on redhat(it was redhat then) and suse. It sure would be nice if someone made a "make config" option for the kernel, but gentoo has genkernel and it tends to work. Do ubuntu/fedora kernels have config.gz support turned on? if so it should be very easy to rebuild a kernel. Although I'm guessing that ubuntu/etc use initramfs-es these days, making it a bit harder to make your own kernel. Is there a reason to always use the provided Ubuntu kernel? or is it imposable to use a non ubuntu packaged kernel?
Really though, I'm curious why it's always "THE SKY IS FALLING" sort of news related to some version/check-in of the kernel as it relates to ext4 or btrfs. Don't get me wrong, I like to see people testing new code, and if i had more time/hardware I would be as well.
Why is there such concern over which kernel has a small performance regression in it(iin a not for production use FS no less)? Can you not upgrade kernels in ubuntu/fedora/suse/etc? Does a vanilla kernel not work? If 2.6.35 is bad for the default FS of ubuntu/$DISTRO surely they would ship 2.6.34 or some other version? If you don't like changes, run one of the long term kernels, take your pick of older kernels listed as stable on http://www.kernel.org/ 2.6.34.x, 2.6.33.x, 2.6.27.x All of these receive backported fixes for bugs and security issues.
I'm sure i'm missing something as i switched to Gentoo some 7 years ago, as I grumpy at not being able to use a vanilla kernel with some DRM patches on redhat(it was redhat then) and suse. It sure would be nice if someone made a "make config" option for the kernel, but gentoo has genkernel and it tends to work. Do ubuntu/fedora kernels have config.gz support turned on? if so it should be very easy to rebuild a kernel. Although I'm guessing that ubuntu/etc use initramfs-es these days, making it a bit harder to make your own kernel. Is there a reason to always use the provided Ubuntu kernel? or is it imposable to use a non ubuntu packaged kernel?
Really though, I'm curious why it's always "THE SKY IS FALLING" sort of news related to some version/check-in of the kernel as it relates to ext4 or btrfs. Don't get me wrong, I like to see people testing new code, and if i had more time/hardware I would be as well.
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