Josef “Jeff” Sipek

So, it would seem that Linus has gone insane. His announcement of 2.6.18 is rather odd — I didn’t expect him to go for the Internation Talk-like a Pirate day thing…

Ahoy!

She’s good to go, hoist anchor!

Here’s some real booty for all you land-lubbers.

There’s not too many changes, with t’bulk of the patch bein’ defconfig updates, but the shortlog at the aft of this here email describes the details if you care, you scurvy dogs.

Header cleanups, various one-liners, and random other fixes.

Linus "but you can call me Cap’n"

Oh, and I got a simple patch into the kernel. I have about 8 more of similar ones that should get into 2.6.19-rc1. Oh, and of course, I should resubmit Unionfs in the next week or two. Grr…so much to do!

Hrm, the ever-ending TODO list currently contains two papers I want to read. Since the TODO list doesn’t actually exist anywhere beyond my head, I figured that I’d post the links to the papers here, and maybe someone who reads this will bug me, in turn making me actually read them.

• Soft Updates: A Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous Writes in the Fast Filesystem
• Stackable Design of File Systems (I already read his SOSP’95 paper about the topic.)

So, here’s a mini-rant…There are just as many XFS complaints as ext3 complaints on the linux-kernel mailing list. Yep. It is that simple. I can’t stand the fact that some people make a big deal out of complaints about XFS, but are oddly silent (or ignorant?) of the fact that there are just as many “problems” with Ext2/3. I’m not even considering Ext4, as it is in development.

This is really a sequel to a post from a year ago: Fossil.

Now you may call me an old fart. :)

So, finally, after long time of trying to get Unionfs into the Linux kernel, we submited it to linux-kernel, fsdevel, cc’ing all the people that should be cc’d (Al Viro, Christoph Hellwig, and Andrew Morton.)