Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:00:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:00:52 -0400 Received: from c16410.randw1.nsw.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.25.29]:12791 "EHLO mail.chubb.wattle.id.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:00:51 -0400 From: Peter Chubb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15770.10847.884743.30282@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:06:07 +1000 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder In-Reply-To: <96096729@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.18. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1444 Lines: 31 >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig writes: Christoph> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:32:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds Christoph> wrote: >> you _should_ also test this code out even before the freeze. The >> IDE layer shouldn't be all that scary any more, and while there are >> still silly things like trivially non-compiling setups etc, it's >> generally a good idea to try things out as widely as possible >> before it's getting too late to complain about things.. Christoph> What about the 64bit sector_t (aka >2TB blockdevice) Christoph> patches. IMHO they're a must-have for 2.6 (people already Christoph> ask for backporting them to 2.4..) and last time I check Christoph> Peter had a BK tree with nicely split changesets. Indeed... And I'm trying to merge it all now into 2.5.40. Sorry I've been a bit slow --- testing, especially error testing when disks fill up, takes a long time (How long does it take to write 4 TB to a disk? About a day with the machines I have here. Multiply that by three (now four with XFS) filesystems to test...) -- Dr Peter Chubb peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/