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2.4.9 Kernel Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

Justin writes: "Linus is off to Finland for a week or so and released 2.4.9. " Here is the Changelog for those of you interested. Yeah, it's probably gonna be a little crowded for a bit. Please post mirrors in the comments.

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  1. Re:NTFS filesystem by Haggis+Muncher · · Score: 4, Interesting


    You can fix this by editing "/usr/src/linux/fs/ntfs/unistr.h" and adding the following at line 30:

    #include <linux/kernel.h>

    and then recompiling. I've not bothered to submit an official patch... there's probably dozens already.

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  2. Bug in NTFS compilation by the+way · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just compiled 2.4.9 with read-only support for NTFS. It turns out that there is a small bug that stops it from compiling. To fix the bug, edit fs/ntfs/unistr.c, and add somewhere near the top (line 24 or 25 is fine):

    #include <linux/kernel.h>

  3. I can't wait until XFS is standard... by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't wait until SGI gets XFS merged into the main tree. I'm running XFS on all my systems, and so I have to wait until SGI gets the changes merged back into their port.

    XFS (especially when combined with LVM) is great. No fscks, big files, ACLs, and you can grow a mounted file system (great with LVM and hot-swap drives).

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