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After patching every single kernel thats come out since the early 2.4s, I now have a kernel that I don't need to patch. WOW, about darn time!! Perhaps I'll even get lucky enough that RedHat and others that do not support XFS yet will build it into their kernels. That will make MY life easier, and updates go faster.

We chose XFS after lots of serious testing. It beat all comers at the time and we've been using it ever since. The only downside to XFS is file deletion times are a bit long, especially compared to Reiser, but when you have a server that is uner HEAVY load (Databses, mail servers) and with LARGE files (log server) nothing beats XFS.

Thanks guys, this is one of those merges that has made me estatic!

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Considering the FTC's prompt aggressive approach to enforcing current consumer protection law, I have little faith in this latest legislative foray. Be it stock scams, penis patches, pornography, or purchase drugs on-line, SPAM already breaks CURRENT laws. I have yet to seem effective enforcement of the laws we already have, does anyone honestly believe that this will this really make a difference?

Until the people that are harmed (i.e. the people that own the mail servers) can sue for damages, and pursue the SPAMMERS on their own, nothing will change. If you don't take the consequences out of the cyber world and put it into the real world, we will continue to get spammed. While this is a tiny, tiny, tiny step in the right direction, until tour government allows/starts using much more aggressive tactics, very little will change.

What about baseball bats and cousins named Vinny? It seems to me that it would be hard to send spam with broken fingers and knees. [ Don't flame me, notice that tongue in my cheek! ]

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