LWN: Comments on "The 2.5 "what to expect" document, v0.42" http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "The 2.5 "what to expect" document, v0.42". hourly 2 No hash tree for ext2? http://lwn.net/Articles/40286/rss 2003-07-18T00:27:52+00:00 bgilbert I can't find a definitive reference right now, but ISTR ext2 had this a while ago. No floppy boot support http://lwn.net/Articles/40273/rss 2003-07-17T22:10:26+00:00 allesfresser Not only that, but it seems that the kernel is getting too big to fit on a floppy a lot of the time anyway. Perhaps using isolinux and putting it on a CD-RW would be an alternative? I've found it pretty easy to test out Slackware boot CDs this way. No floppy boot support http://lwn.net/Articles/40239/rss 2003-07-17T18:30:30+00:00 dw It might be another step or two, but it's probably another low-level special case removed from the kernel bootup code. Some of this stuff is written in arch-specific assembler and the less of it the better. No floppy boot support http://lwn.net/Articles/40146/rss 2003-07-17T08:45:50+00:00 yodermk What's with the lack of support for booting directly from floppies? It is awfully convenient to &quot;dd bzImage /dev/fd0&quot; to be able to test a kernel from a floppy or for a quick and dirty boot floppy. Sure, putting LILO on it isn't THAT big a deal, but it's another step or two...<br> No hash tree for ext2? http://lwn.net/Articles/39937/rss 2003-07-15T21:03:36+00:00 Ross The list shows that only ext3 got the directory index optimizations.<br>Is there a reason that ext2 was not patched as well?