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Linux 2.6.34 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the fresh-bits dept.

diegocg writes "Linux 2.6.34 has been released. This version adds two new filesystem, the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices. Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance, the VMware balloon driver, the 'kprobes jump' optimization for dynamic probes, new perf features (the 'perf lock' tool, cross-platform analysis support), several Btrfs improvements, RCU lockdep, Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (RFC 5082) and private VLAN proxy arp (RFC 3069) support, asynchronous suspend/resume, several new drivers and many other small improvements. See the full changelog here."

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  1. a filesystem for flash devices by deathcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    > a filesystem for flash devices

    here we go again, unless we stop supporting flash, Apple has refused to distribute dual-boot Linux enabled iPads

    1. Re:a filesystem for flash devices by hellop2 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is that a joke?

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    2. Re:a filesystem for flash devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      No. Flash support is in Linux and Apple indeed refuses to distribute dual-boot Linux enabled iPads.

    3. Re:a filesystem for flash devices by jo_ham · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm more concerned that this is a slashvertisment for Linux.

      Slashdot used to be about news for nerds, stuff that mattered!

      How far it has fallen.

    4. Re:a filesystem for flash devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      One of the new features of 2.6.34 kernel is Woooooosh owerflow protection

    5. Re:a filesystem for flash devices by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, it's a kdawson post - he's notorious for posting Slashvertisements for the latest brand of rip off Snake Oil. I mean, "Linux", come on, what's that supposed to be? Some shoddy knock off of BSD/MacOS Unix? I bet it's just the periscope of a Microsoft patent submarine.

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  2. Excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    With releases like these, it's no wonder M$ is getting worried. Been running this kernel a while now on our production servers (even from before it it was tagged release, I like running bleeding edge in order to get the most performance from my company's hardware investment) and save from a few data corruptions issues, it's been rock stable! I have to play with the new KVM support later on one of the servers with the least amount of customers on it (couple of hundreds), looks nice!

    Sadly... it looks like my company is looking at going with Windoze for a few important servers because of a few outtages. I know it was because of faulty hardware, because I had just compiled a custom kernel for those servers with just the right flags needed (I want to get the most performance!) but this must have triggered a hardware bug because the kernel worked fine on my work laptop. Sigh...

    Anyway, keep up the good work!

    1. Re:Excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Successful troll is successful, I guess. Well done.

  3. I'm not impressed by justleavealonemmmkay · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows reached version 3.0 some 20 years ago...

    1. Re:I'm not impressed by hoboroadie · · Score: 2, Funny

      AOL 9.5 is far more advanced.

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  4. In reading kernel changelogs... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm always amused by at least one strange juxtaposition of the big-serious-enterprise-server stuff that the corporate devs are most interested in and the oddball hobby projects that can get included as well, so long as they follow the kernel process.

    In this case, I think it was all the "multi-petabyte scaleable filesystem, esoteric btrfs improvements, kernel virtualization networking stuff, gamecon: add rumble support for N64 pads" that did it.