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More On The 2.6 Kernel

Posted by timothy on from the dull-roar dept.

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.."

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  1. Sound Support by voss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow it only took 10 years to get reliable sound support into the kernel ;-)

  2. Re:usb-storage and ntfs by Josh+Booth · · Score: 5, Informative

    A while ago the NTFS guys announced that you can indeed write to NTFS, as long as you don't make any new files and don't extend or shorten the length of any existing ones. Not really full write support, but something.

    About the usb mass storage devices etc., I suppose that certain features depend on having a SCSI interface, which is provided for non-SCSI devices by ide-scsi. I didn't realize that they need ide-scsi or a SCSI-like interface, and maybe they don't, but if they need ide-scsi and ide-scsi is broken, then people are in trouble. The reason I say that they might not need ide-scsi is that there apparently was an older SCSI interface that used bus/dev/lun addressing (Ex.: 0/1/0) and newer interfaces have been created. Linus wants to keep in the Unix spirit and just use device files (Ex.: /dev/sg0).