[Linux] Linux 2.6.34 has been released

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Definition Update for Microsoft Security Essentials - KB972669 ( Definition 1.81.1898.0 ) released.

We realize a some Niners here use Linux on a daily basis, but this is a Microsoft forum. And the only time you ever post is to post Linux releases. Don't see the point.

We need a "Marked as a Raymond post" link on these forums.

Nothing very interesting here, which is just how I like it. Various random
fixes all over, nothing really stands out. Pretty much all of it is one-
or few-liners, I think the biggest patch in the last week was fixing some
semantics for the new SR-IOV VF netlink interface. And even that wasn't
a _big_ patch by any means.

So 2.6.34 is out, and the merge window is thus officially open. As usual,
I probably won't do any real pulls for a day or two, in the (probably
futile) hope that we'll have more people running plain 2.6.34 for a while.
But you can certainly start sending me pull requests.

Go forth and test,

Linus

Meh?

Harlequin said:

We realize a some Niners here use Linux on a daily basis, but this is a Microsoft forum. And the only time you ever post is to post Linux releases. Don't see the point.

 

We need a "Marked as a Raymond post" link on these forums.

Argh, true. It would have been more interesting if I would have wrote some "story" with those couple of links.

Well ... I need to be more verbose in future.

I think it's OK ( or is it? ) post some Linux announcement. That's why I do put [Linux] to beginning of every Linux related posts so people sees right away if it's anything they even could be interested in.

vesuvius said:

Nothing very interesting here, which is just how I like it. Various random
fixes all over, nothing really stands out. Pretty much all of it is one-
or few-liners, I think the biggest patch in the last week was fixing some
semantics for the new SR-IOV VF netlink interface. And even that wasn't
a _big_ patch by any means.

So 2.6.34 is out, and the merge window is thus officially open. As usual,
I probably won't do any real pulls for a day or two, in the (probably
futile) hope that we'll have more people running plain 2.6.34 for a while.
But you can certainly start sending me pull requests.

Go forth and test,

Linus

 

Meh?

He means patches between 2.6.34-rc7 <-> 2.6.34 not diff between 2.6.33 <-> 2.6.34

Erisan said:

Harlequin said:

*snip*

Argh, true. It would have been more interesting if I would have wrote some "story" with those couple of links.

Well ... I need to be more verbose in future.

 

I think it's OK ( or is it? ) post some Linux announcement. That's why I do put [Linux] to beginning of every Linux related posts so people sees right away if it's anything they even could be interested in.

I do not personally see the meaningfulness of posting a new Lunix version update in here, after all it is a Microsoft forum and eventhough many use other tech that MS stuff, I still do not see the relevancy of your post here. Not saying it's not OK to discuss other OSes or anything, but a thread for each new kernel release is a bit off topic imho, even for coffeehouse.

Maybe some specific coolness or issue with it to discuss would be different but just a new version announcement is a bit meh...

turrican said:

Erisan said:

*snip*

I do not personally see the meaningfulness of posting a new Lunix version update in here, after all it is a Microsoft forum and eventhough many use other tech that MS stuff, I still do not see the relevancy of your post here. Not saying it's not OK to discuss other OSes or anything, but a thread for each new kernel release is a bit off topic imho, even for coffeehouse.

 

Maybe some specific coolness or issue with it to discuss would be different but just a new version announcement is a bit meh...

Yeah, fair enough

Two Channel 9 forum feature propositions: to be able to delete own posts + to be able to change the post title

Erisan said:

turrican said:

*snip*

Yeah, fair enough

 

Two Channel 9 forum feature propositions: to be able to delete own posts + to be able to change the post title

I think you can edit the title, atleast I can.

o.O

Not the most interesting release, but this is pretty cool:

Ceph is a distributed network filesystem. It is built from the ground up to seamlessly and gracefully scale from gigabytes to petabytes and beyond. Scalability is considered in terms of workload as well as total storage. Ceph is designed to handle workloads in which tens thousands of clients or more simultaneously access the same file, or write to the same directory–usage scenarios that bring typical enterprise storage systems to their knees.

Bass said:

Not the most interesting release, but this is pretty cool:

 

Ceph is a distributed network filesystem. It is built from the ground up to seamlessly and gracefully scale from gigabytes to petabytes and beyond. Scalability is considered in terms of workload as well as total storage. Ceph is designed to handle workloads in which tens thousands of clients or more simultaneously access the same file, or write to the same directory–usage scenarios that bring typical enterprise storage systems to their knees.

Oh darn... the next obvious question is... Why isn't Microsoft working on such a cool thing? I almost fell of my chair. Going to read more about this for sure.

turrican said:

Bass said:

*snip*

Oh darn... the next obvious question is... Why isn't Microsoft working on such a cool thing? I almost fell of my chair. Going to read more about this for sure.

I don't know how they compare in performance or scalability, but Windows has had Distributed File System (DFS) for quite some time.

DCMonkey said:

turrican said:

*snip*

I don't know how they compare in performance or scalability, but Windows has had Distributed File System (DFS) for quite some time.

Yes, DFS has been there for quite some time, but it's built as an abstraction of network storages built on top of NTFS, therefore it'll suffer the same bottleneck of concurrent access, and same performance penalty if large pile of files are stored on the same folder, just like NTFS. So they're basically not the same kind of thing.

You'll need a primary filesystem that handles those problem in order to compare with Ceph.

Ion Todirel said:

Harlequin said:

*snip*

Now cmon give the guy a break. His so called "linux threads" has yielded numerous times to interesting and valuable technical discussions. You just killed the thread by saying "go post somewhere else". Do not go anywhere Erisan

Well, my first post looks pretty much a spam so no wonder that people gets angry. Additional to that there's no anything Microsoft related so it's "a bit" off topic here.

@turrican: Whoops, for some reason I had a impression that I can't modify topics, but I can indeed.

Bass said:

Not the most interesting release, but this is pretty cool:

 

Ceph is a distributed network filesystem. It is built from the ground up to seamlessly and gracefully scale from gigabytes to petabytes and beyond. Scalability is considered in terms of workload as well as total storage. Ceph is designed to handle workloads in which tens thousands of clients or more simultaneously access the same file, or write to the same directory–usage scenarios that bring typical enterprise storage systems to their knees.

Yeah, quite "booring" release for me also. There might be some new interesting stuff in ARM side that I need to check more carefully at work. Of course LogFS is worth to some experiments also.

As a heavy KVM user KVM network improvements looks good although I have had no problems with network speed so far. I have also been using BtrFS [1] [2] since Fedora 11 and I have really liked it. There has been a lot of improvements during current year.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

[2] BtrFS in Fedora 13

Erisan said:

Bass said:

*snip*

Yeah, quite "booring" release for me also. There might be some new interesting stuff in ARM side that I need to check more carefully at work. Of course LogFS is worth to some experiments also.

 

As a heavy KVM user KVM network improvements looks good although I have had no problems with network speed so far. I have also been using BtrFS [1] [2] since Fedora 11 and I have really liked it. There has been a lot of improvements during current year.

 

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

[2] BtrFS in Fedora 13

From what I hear, Btrfs will be marked as stable in 2.6.25 if all goes well.

Bass said:

Erisan said:

*snip*

From what I hear, Btrfs will be marked as stable in 2.6.25 if all goes well.

That would be interesting. It's possible the experimental tag is removed but not sure if it's ready enough to _serious_ use. At least Josef Bacik (Btrfs developer) is a bit sceptical.

Lots of people have very positive experience with Btrfs. There's a long thread in MeeGo development mailing list about using Btrfs as a default file system in MeeGo - Btrfs as default file system