Hello everyone,
2.4.11pre1 has some significant changes which affect almost everything that touches a disk in linux. The buffer cache is now backed by an address space per device (made possible by Andrea's blkdev changes in 2.4.10), and many cleanups were done by Linus and Al Viro. In every test I've run so far, this is a speed gain for reiserfs, I'd love to see further results. This is one of the more experimental prereleases in 2.4.x, don't run it on systems with important mail messages, source code, work files, homework, love letters, tax records or anything else not found on your favorite distribution's media. I don't expect problems, but.... -chris
