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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
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Subject: Re: fistgen-0.1 released (linux-2.6 support)
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Erez Zadok wrote:
> We're pleased to announce the release of fistgen-0.1, the package of
> stackable templates.  This release includes numerous bug fixes, but biggest
> new thing is a port to Linux 2.6!
> 
> We've tested the templates under various conditions for more than two
> months: over ext2/3, over nfs, with low-memory conditions, small/large
> files, large compile benchmarks, small and large postmark configurations,
> fsx-linux, and other tests -- and permutations of these.  This exhaustive
> testing was done to help ensure that the templates are as stable as possible
> (many people are now using fist in production environments).
> 
> Get the new tarball from
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.filesystems.org/pub/fist/fistgen-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> Here's the relevant portion of the NEWS file:


And for those of us who don't know what a stackable template is?
No doubt there are many well-tested permutations in production 
environments, but still...

	Jeff