POHMELFS Performance- June 16, 2008 "I regularly run and post various benchmarks comparing POHMELFS, NFS, XFS and Ext4, the main goal of POHMELFS at this stage is to be essentially as fast as the underlying local filesystem. And it is..." explained Evgeniy Polyakov, suggesting that the POHMELFS networking filesystem performs 10% to 300% faster than NFS, depending on the file operation. In particular, he noted that it still suffers from random reads, an area that he's currently focused on fixing. He summarized the new features...http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/POHMELFS_Performance Introducing the Linux-Staging Tree- June 14, 2008 "Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs..." began Greg KH, continuing, "yes, this is an announcement of a new kernel tree, linux-staging." He explained: "In a long and meandering thread with some of the other kernel developers a week or so ago, it came up that there is no single place for companies and developers to put their code for testing while it gets cleaned up for submission into the kernel tree. All of the different subsystems have trees, but they generally...http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Introducing_the_Linux_Staging_Tree 2.6.26-rc6, "A Few Less Regressions"- June 12, 2008 "I'd like to say that the diffs are shrinking and things are calming down, but I'd be lying," began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.26-rc6 kernel. He noted, "another week, another -rc, and another 350 commits. Yes, the diff is smaller than the one from rc4 to rc5 (despite having more commits), so we're on the right trajectory, but I was hoping for less churn at this stage." Linus continued: "As usual, most of the changes are to drivers (with arch updates a strong second). The.http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/2.6.26-rc6_A_Few_Less_Regressions |