Robert Love, author of the kernel preemption patch, has written an informative article for KernelTrap on debugging the Linux kernel. He says, “Recently, a lot of work has gone into the 2.5 development kernel to facilitate better debugging. Starting with the 2.5.39 kernel, an infrastructure is in place for tracking down a wide range of atomicity/sleep bugs.“
Debugging Atomicity in Kernel 2.5
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Let’s hope it stabilizes quickly, feature freeze is scheduled for end of October.
-fooks
Does anyone know if the NTFS write code has made in 2.5 yet or is it still NTFS read?
JB-
From the comments, it doesn’t look like it. I guess they have read, but not write, and might not until 2.7 from what I get out of this..
JW