Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Released

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released. The list of new features includes NILFS2 (a new, log-structured filesystem), a filesystem for object-based storage devices called exofs, local caching for NFS, the RDS protocol (which delivers high-performance reliable connections between the servers of a cluster), a new distributed networking filesystem (POHMELFS), automatic flushing of files on renames/truncates in ext3, ext4 and btrfs, preliminary support for the 802.11w drafts, support for the Microblaze architecture, the Tomoyo security MAC, DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx graphic cards, asynchronous scanning of devices and partitions for faster bootup, the preadv/pwritev syscalls, several new drivers and many other small improvements."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Meanwhile back at GNOME H.Q. the developers are still undecided whether to move the "Ok" button on the default help screen 10 pixels to the right. Most think it would be a good idea but a hard core few insist that such a momentous change requires further study as it may confuse new users.

A new version of the dialogue is expected in 2037.

Re:Sad, but true:

[ta bu shi da yu]

Eric Allman might well agree.

Re:In related news

[zevans]

+1 Funny (but true)

POHMEL

[dimethylxanthine]

Not sure about the story behind naming POHMELFS what it is, but "pohmel'e" in Russian means "hangover". You can only guess...

Re:DRM support? In the kernel?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Just look at RMS [wikipedia.org] vs. RMS [wikipedia.org]. (One has to wonder if that was intentional...)

Re:Why another filesystem?!

[tick-tock-atona]

Can anyone explain to me why Windows has so many viruses? Linux has had no viruses for years (admittedly, several attempts, but never any in the wild that I've come across), and Windows has, what, 73 billion or something?! Is it really that hard to get it right?

Re:DRM?

[smittyoneeach]

Dinasaurs Require Money

Doesn't Really Matter:
Democrat/Republican Madness
Devours Remaining Milkshake

Re:Why another filesystem?!

[ta bu shi da yu]

Uh... you just got modded as informative. Genius.

POHMELFS

[Anonymous Coward]

Epecially I like this feature, which if you read it in Russian would mean in English "file system created after a good party night" - or "hangover fs" ;-)

NILFS2 is better than MILFS2

[Dystopian Rebel]

NILFS2 is the successor to MILFS2, which was based on the "Mother" specification.

NILFS2 is based on the "Nanny" specification, which means it is younger, firmer, *and* keeps the child nodes quiet when you are not actively updating its data.

Re:Why another filesystem?!

[peppepz]

You forgot High Sierra, ISO9660, UDF.

And WinFS. Oh, wait...

Re:2.8.x kernel soon?

[Hatta]

They should just drop the 2.8. prefix. Linux 30 sounds much cooler than 2.8.30, and man it's got to be light years ahead of Windows 7!

Re:Sad, but true:

[mcgrew]

Actually, you COULD use Linux as an OS for a British cigarette vending machine, in which case it WOULD be for fags!

Re:2.8.x kernel soon?

[SiChemist]

I loved the last item in the roadmap:

- 2.6.<odd>: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up
      to it (timeframe: a month or two).
  - 2.<odd>.x: aim for big changes that may destabilize the kernel for
      several releases (timeframe: a year or two)
  - <odd>.x.x: Linus went crazy, broke absolutely _everything_, and rewrote
      the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version
      of Visual Basic. (timeframe: "we expect that he will be released from
      the mental institution in a decade or two").

ext4?

[Zancarius]

Where'd my wife and the extra seat from my car go?

With Reiser in jail, the only thing you have left is to blame ext4. :)

Err, excuse me. The application developers.

Re:Why another filesystem?!

[leoc]

Can anyone explain to me why Ford has so many kinds of cars? Tesla has had a 2 seat roadster for years (admittedly, several versions, but never any compatibility issues that I've come across), and Ford has, what, 73 or something?! Is it really that hard to get it right?

Re:2.8.x kernel soon?

[OrangeTide]

waiting for linux 3.1415

Re:Why another filesystem?!

[EvilNTUser]

You just wait. In another ten years, Apple will have invented it!

Re:2.8.x kernel soon?

[shutdown -p now]

... rewrote the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version of Visual Basic.

Oh, so that is what GNU/Hurd guys are up to these days!

Re:DRM?

[Hognoxious]

Dead Reiser's Mrs?

Re:Why another filesystem?!

[dotgain]

1. 10 MS workers get to work. Project not necessarily completed on time, might even be mediocre. But those 10 workers know who's paying their bills, and get their heads down. One of them falls out with the rest of his team, and gets replaced immediately.
2. Day 1. Entire Linux team forks, unable to agree on the name. Half of them want to call it "GIND Is Not a Dam", the other half think it should be called "xkjrtl" and install to /opt/bin. Now two teams of 5e6 workers each.
   Day 3. One member expressed his distaste at the brown colour of the bricks they had to use. x teams of 10e6/x
   Day 480. 10e6 bricks lie at various positions on the riverbed, all with their own SourceForge page.

No, I'm no MS fanboy. I just dumped Linux after 14 years for an Apple. It's not perfect, but OSX seems to waste the least of my time.