ushing buttons, alpha
and beta testing of 3D graphics drivers). I *love* being able to type
"rm -rf linux-x.y.z-acNN" and have the command prompt reappear in less
than a second. I intended merely to highlight the danger inherent in
saying to people "oh look you can put a million ent
reasons.
But there are other reasons (besides the kernel's and filesystems'
handling of directories and name lookups). I think you're spot on
about the performance issues and on-disk structures, though.
> -hpa
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> > We use Solaris and NFS a lot, too, so large directories are a bad
> > thing in general for us, so we tend to subdivide things using a
> > very simple scheme: taking the first letter and then sometimes
>
ures
would tend to improve the characteristics of insertion and removal
of entries on even moderately sized directories, which would
probably provide a net gain for many folks.
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This is fixed in the -ac series against 2.4.0, from I think -ac2.
I don't think the fix made the mainstream kernel yet.
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In connection with connection failures using recent kernels, it often
seems to be related to ECN being enabled.
PIX firewalls seem to interpret the ECN option header as a source
route header (that's what it's logged as).
I got bitten by this at work ;ยท(
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p entry" repeatedly during shutdown recently, not sure if
that's gone yet.
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depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-ac7/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o
depmod: queued_sectors
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ckage version out of the way, and run ldconfig.
This is being fixed in Red Hat Raw Hide, and someone put up a version
for download (can't remember where now; will have a look tomorrow and
let you know).
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Many thanks, but I just cleaned it up ... the real credit belongs to
Ian Hastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
o Fix mac address setting in 8139too (Ben Greear)
-o AGP oops fix/ALi cleanup (Bill Crawford)
+o AGP oops fix/ALi cleanup (Ian Hastie)
o Further DECnet cleanups (Hans Grobler)
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