This week at LWN: That massive filesystem thread

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 15, 2009 11:10 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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Long, highly-technical, and animated discussion threads are certainly not unheard of on the linux-kernel mailing list. Even by linux-kernel standards, though, the thread that followed the 2.6.29 announcement was impressive. Over the course of hundreds of messages, kernel developers argued about several aspects of how filesystems and block I/O work on contemporary Linux systems. In the end (your editor will be optimistic and say that it has mostly ended), we had a lot of heat - and some useful, concrete results.

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