From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992948AbXDRXOP (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:14:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992952AbXDRXOP (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:14:15 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:31881 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992948AbXDRXON (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:14:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=bSfCjDL1UlR543C3LdOxt45rNPqg1OlmbU4RiufWNo/mgpU/kzhaehJMp5x2prhBXLTQxDXLcV1OyI2VTlmHrriURZUChswM9qrYCtSPbKczJC4iYHwpvt86wuCCILiwCYXSixv+1/OMNOJRJT0PIB9Caq6Ai3phRQwvi4y4R2A= From: Denis Vlasenko To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:14:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704190114.05885.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi kernel people, Just upgraded by home box to 2.6.20.7. Wow. * Reiser3 mount times are drastically reduced, even when journal replay is needed (I have few 100Gb+ reiser3 partitions mounted at boot) * sit pseudo-interface is gone. In previous kernel, I tried to disable it in kernel config to no avial. Now it was easy to simply compile it as a module. * From make menuconfig questions it looks like SATA/PATA rewrite (in the form of libata) is almost finished. Hehe, untangling IDE mess was quite a feat, and Jeff did it. Kudos. Need to check now whether losetup oopses are gone too, or hunt them down if they are still with us :) Thanks everybody for your amazing work. -- vda