Linus just released Linux Kernel 2.6.27 to the stable tree after 9 release candidate releases. Some highlights include: 2.6.27 add a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for “pure” flash-based storage devices, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performan

Linus just released Linux Kernel 2.6.27 to the stable tree after 9 release candidate releases. Some highlights include: 2.6.27 add a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for “pure” flash-based storage devices, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation for ext4, multiqueue networking, an alternative hibernation implementation based on kexec/kdump, data [...]