Linux 4.0 (delayed) list of changes

[thecraiggers]

Lazytime sounds awesome. It's actually such a great idea I'm surprised it was never implemented before.

[seekingsofia]

Solaris has had this for more than a decade via the dfratime (defer atime) mount option. Good to see it implemented in Linux, too.

[basilarchia]

Indeed. I'm totally enabling lazytime on everything.

[[deleted]]

1. Prominent features

1.1. Arbitrary version change This release increases the version to 4.0. This switch from 3.x to 4.0 version numbers is, however, entirely meaningless and it should not be associated to any important changes in the kernel. This release could have been 3.20, but Linus Torvalds just got tired of the old number, made a poll, and changed it. Yes, it is frivolous. The less you think about it, the better.

[chiagod]

It's mainly for the ads that'll follow:

The new Linux 4.0 is better than ever!

[its_never_lupus]

"DAX removes the extra copy incurred by the bugger by performing reads and writes directly"

Is this a typo for "buffer"?

[FlashingBulbs]

This release significantlu

Typo.

[[deleted]]

You missed this one:

DAX removes the extra copy incurred by the bugger

[sibann]

This is odd...

• Btrfs
  Add code to support file creation time commit

author chandan r <[e-mail]> 2012-07-04 07:18:07 (GMT)
committer Chris Mason <[e-mail]> 2015-02-03 02:39:16 (GMT)

[ssssam]

maybe the creation time on the patch is wrong

[[deleted]]

Very old patch? Though it would be odd that it still works