Long, highly-technical, and animated discussion threads are certainly not
unheard of on the linux-kernel mailing list. Even by linux-kernel
standards, though, the
thread that followed the 2.6.29 announcement was impressive. Over the
course of hundreds of messages, kernel developers argued about several
aspects of how filesystems and block I/O work on contemporary Linux
systems. In the end (your editor will be optimistic and say that it has
mostly ended), we had a lot of heat – and some useful, concrete results.
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