From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751084AbWIZFQk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:16:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751085AbWIZFQk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:16:40 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:10468 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751084AbWIZFQj (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:16:39 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: YqJOyt0vgPF1vN4eIFerOqIArJYP+UcEd433bguI3Pbn 1159247800 From: Shriramana Sharma To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Improvements in 2.6.18 will help SATA? Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:46:35 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609261046.35391.samjnaa@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm an end user, not a developer. From: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18 I see that a lot of the changes are related to SATA. I have a Seagate SATA HDD as my one and only HDD so if I will really be benefitting performance-wise from the new features or improvements, then I will install 2.6.18 over 2.6.15. So please tell me as I am not able to decipher for myself, whether these improvements will lead to better performance, efficiency, speed or something like that on my SATA HDD. Please don't be harsh with me if this question is way OT for this list. I thought only the developers can answer such a question so I asked here. I'm sincerely sorry if I am bothering anyone. Please cc me as I am not on the list. -- Shriramana Sharma Linux user #395953 using Kubuntu 6.06.1