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Last Update: Fri May 16 19:27:57 2008 | | + BSDCan 2008: Opening Session +
BSDCan 2008 officially started this morning at 9AM with an opening talk by the event's organizer, Dan Langille. However, in [...] yet always coming from "disposable" email addresses. After some laughs, he launched into his opening keynote. read more |
| + Removing the Big Kernel Lock +
" As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptible BKL feature and made [...] big mutex, with a quirky lock/unlock interface called 'lock_kernel()' and 'unlock_kernel()'." read more |
| + BSDCan 2008 +
KernelTrap is excited to be able to offer live coverage of this year's BSDCan 2008 in Ottawa, Canada on May 16th and 17th [...] have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers." read more |
| + Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System +
" I'm please to announce [the] POHMEL high performance network filesystem. POHMELFS stands for Parallel Optimized Host [...] data encryption when transferring data over the network. Evgeniy linked to several benchmarks in his blog. read more |
| + HAMMER Stabilizing +
Matthew Dillon sent out a series of updates about his developing HAMMER filesystem, noting that he is currently focusing on the [...] the crash recovery code. I expect to find a few more bugs, but I'm really happy with the results so far." read more |
| + 2.6.26-rc2, "Little Exciting Here" +
" About 45% architecture updates (counting the include files too), about 30% drivers, and about 25% odds-and-ends. The [...] the semaphore implementation and the preemptable BKL, so we're back to the old regular version for now." read more |
| + 2.6.26-rc1, "Less Scary Stuff Going On" +
" So this merge window was somewhat rocky in the sense that there was a lot of arguments about it, but at the same time I at least [...] but one interesting tidbit I found was that during this *one* merge window, we had almost 800 different authors. " read more |
| + Active Merge Windows +
" This is starting to get beyond frustrating for me, " complained David Miller of the latest merge window, launching what turned [...] but I'm arguing against the false dichotomy of believing that quality is incompatible with lots of change." read more |
| + OpenBSD 4.3 Released +
" We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3, " began OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt. " This is our 23rd release [...] the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN IEEE 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N wireless network device; new upgt(4) driver for the Conexant/Intersil P |
| + Btrfs 0.14, Managing Multiple Devices +
" Btrfs v0.14 is now available for download, " Chris Mason announced , adding, " please note the disk format has changed, and it [...] the device removal and IO error handling code. After that I'll add more fine grained locking to the btrees. " read more |
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