Bill Dimm wrote:
> "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if Netraverse might arrange to have the kernel mods
> > included in the standard Linux kernel sources. Since the
>
> I've noticed that disk intensive activity (mysql and file
> moves on big directories) can be noticeably slower when running
> the win4lin kernel even when "win" is not running (750MHz Pentium III
> with EIDE running Mandrake 7.0 with win4lin prebuilt kernel).
> I haven't looked into this much to try to nail down a cause (such
> as difference in hdparm or something) but if this is something
> that is generally true (perhaps to integrate windows file access
> with Linux) I doubt the entire Linux community (i.e. those not
> running win4lin) would want to be stuck with it.
No, they wouldn't want to be stuck with it. But I assume that there
would be a kernel config option that would either include the code or
not include it. That's how all the device-specific stuff works, of
course.
Paul
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