The 2.6.11 kernel is out
The 2.6.11 kernel is out
Posted Mar 2, 2005 17:58 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467)Parent article: The 2.6.11 kernel is out
The in-inode xattr (also known as large inodes) patch is good for Samba and for Lustre. Presently, Lustre is a huge set of patches on top of vendor kernels. Merging this patch into mainline makes it more like that Lustre will be supported on kernel.org kernels sometime in the future.
Posted Mar 3, 2005 5:06 UTC (Thu)
by jd (guest, #26381)
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Lustre has (in the past few days) had another "public release", which is excellent news. It is still way behind the commercial version, but that's forgivable - even if it is annoying. The combination of patches likely to accelerate Lustre, combined with a 2.6-capable Lustre release, has the potential for being a powerful combination. I would like to see Lustre (and other cluster & grid technologies) in more distributions. At present, distros don't do well on the higher-end stuff, especially if it is more likely to appeal to scientists than office workers.The 2.6.11 kernel is out
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I think it's more likely people would find a use for Lustre and Globus than they would for a large number of near-identical office suites & DVD players, if they had to choose. (A range of choices is good, provided it doesn't come at the expense of having options. Then, it defeats the whole purpose.)