More On The 2.6 Kernel

Jan Stafford writes points out an article in which "SearchEnterpriseLinux.com expert Ken Milberg digs under the hood of the upcoming 2.6 Linux kernel and examines the benefits and opportunities it presents for Linux in the enterprise." And Semaphore writes "Linux.com is running a great article on the future of ide-scsi in 2.6. It seems Linus and Joerg Schilling, author of cdrtools disagree on whether the problems are with Linux or the application software. Interesting read.."

Comments

usb-storage and ntfs

[asteinberg]

The first article mentions a rewritten NTFS driver that supports read/write - I thought that the NTFS driver is still (and always will be, aside from the recent story about using Windows' ntfs.dll) considered "experimental", right? Perhaps it will still be labeled that way but will actually be solid enough to use? Anyone know?

Also, the second article mentions potential problems with usb mass storage devices (flash card readers, digital cameras, etc.) but never really draws any conclusions about how they will work - any ideas here?

Re:Two Things.

[dalutong]

I have them working -- and i also find it annoying that i can't make my /dev/sda ALWAYS be my camera and /dev/sdb always be my external drive. (you'd think there would be a way... i could grep the scsi bus... but i don't know how to make scsi0 be sda or anything else)

Re:Can someone tell me

[Wolfrider]

IIRC:

o It has to do with error-reporting (or the lack of it) in Linux

o Talking to everything as "0,0,0"-type SCSI makes cdrecord easier to port.