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Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released
diegocgteleline.es writes "The Linux kernel v2.6.31 has been released. Besides the desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support mentioned some days ago, there is an equivalent of FUSE for character devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, new tools for using hardware performance counters, readahead improvements, ATI Radeon KMS, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, gcov support, a memory checker and a memory leak detector, a reimplementation of inotify and dnotify on top of a new filesystem notification infrastructure, btrfs improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire, new drivers and small improvements. The full list of changes can be found here."
I suggest the EXT4 devs take time off permanently and save us from their folly.
Why a desktop layer like KDE should have to detect the filesystem type and run disk syncs(!) to avoid data corruption is beyond me. I could get better results running OS X on top of UFS.
The EXT4 devs are blaming KDE for something that has nothing to do with them, and the former are actually repeating errors from the early releases of Reiserfs v3. Astoundingly, they refuse to take responsibility and blame the F&%&$ desktop layer. Lesson: Your apps are simply not safe on EXT4 using typical desktop hardware.
Truly, the BSD world is looking better and better all the time.