Now running 2.5.40-bk4

[Bob Raymond]

On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:37, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> Bob Raymond wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 12:29, Collins wrote:
> > 
> >>Unlike my experiences with the 2.3.x development series (which 
> >>seemed better and faster than 2.2.x stable series), I have yet to 
> >>read about anything in 2.5.x that makes me want to swim in this 
> >>pond before it is  2.6 or 3.0.  Have you found any great benefits?
> > 
> > 
> > Sound is much better.  I'm not sure whether I'm getting slower
> > performance because of XFS or not, but that code seems to be relatively
> > volatile right now.  Since you're using ext3, I don't see where you'd
> > have any problems, but I think I'm not going to touch it again until the
> > XFS code has stabilized a bit more.  Others on LKML have reported more
> > zip, even on 486 25mhz machines with 8 mb and 0 swap, than 2.4.19.
> > 
> > Bob Raymond
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> XFS code is pretty stable as is, which is why it was included into the 
> kernel at .39. There is, however, a development tree which will most 
> likely be what's in 2.6. If you're really after cutting edge XFS see the 
> announcement:

That's not what I'm referring to.  There's a bit of queuing stuff going
on, and that doesn't seem to have stabilized.  At least the code
compiles now, but it's very slow.

			Bob Raymond