2.6 history, continued

2.6.8 (August 13, 2004)
Mirror and snapshot support in device mapper
Generic DMA improvements
x86 NX support
New symlink lookup mechanism
SCSI operation permissions checking

2.6.9 (October 18, 2004)
Block I/O barrier support
Limited unprivileged memory locking
Token-based thrashing control
Kprobes
USB "On The Go" support
Out-of-line spinlocks
A new I/O memory access mechanism (API change)