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Operating Systems

Submission + - Kernel hackers on ext3/4 afte 2.6.29 release

microbee writes: Following the Linux kernel 2.6.29 release, several famous kernel hackers have raised complaints upon what seems to be a long-time performance problem related to ext3. Alan Cox, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Andi Keen, Theodore Tso, and of course Linus Torvalds have all participated. It may shed some light on the status of Linux filesystems. For example, Linus Torvalds commented on the corruption caused by writeback mode, calling it "idiotic".
Operating Systems

Submission + - Linus on binary kernel modules

microbee writes: On LKML's periodic GPL vs binary kernel module discussion, Andrew Morton hinted that he favors refusing to load binary modules in 12 months. Greg KH then posted a patch to do exactly that. Surprisingly Linus chimed in and called it "stupid" and "political agenda", and even compared it with RIAA. Later in the same thread Greg withdrew his patch and apologized for not having thought through.

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