On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > When you say SMP support is better: are you referring to the fact that > 2.4 scales to a higher number of processors, or will I actually > experience a performance boost on my dual Athlon?
Both. > Does APM work for SMP systems on 2.4? You can enable it under 2.2; it > just doesn't do anything. No. > I think I'll keep my filesystems at ext2 for now, since I may need to > reboot under 2.2 in a pinch. When I'm reasonably satisfied that 2.4 is > OK, I'll probably move up to ext3. That's the beauty of ext3: ext2 is just ext3 without a speed tweek and journaling. > This is probably the biggest issue; I've gotten several conflicting > recommendations about devfs/devfsd. What are the advantages of going to > the new devfs/devfsd? You get to delete /dev/* and reclaim disk space and inodes, and the contents of /dev/ depend entirely on what your kernel supports and the hardware that actually exists. > I haven't really paid much attention to the buzz > about this issue, although I gather it generated some controversy early > in the 2.4 series. FWIW, the hardware on this machine doesn't change > all that often; USB currently isn't an issue, as I don't have any USB > devices. It's still nice to have a realistic view of what exists. > So: stick with the old dev, or use the devfs with devfsd running in > compatibility mode? Your call. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
