Hey,
Looks like it's been ages since I last wrote. Sorry for the time it's been, but Icadyptes has had some good progress. I've been keeping track of BFS, and gave it a try. I was quite impressed with it, and #ck on irc.oftc.net has been quite helpful (and is quite the smart group of people). I pushed a BFS'ified and GRSecuritifed (but hacked to death, just for dmesg and /proc restrictions) 2.6.31.1 kernel out to core about 48 hours ago (2009-10-09). So, apparently, Icadyptes is the first traditional-ish Linux distribution to include BFS by default! Apparently someone got a Ubuntu Linux-BFS build going, but I don't think any other distros (except apparently an Android fork) use BFS yet, by default :-). The whole IRC channel is quite nice and helpful. It's nice to find a smart, but not obnoxious channel. AStorm was suggesting that my I/O lockup issues might be from the BKL in ReiserFS; I think he's right. If I `dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile, all I/O seems to stop. If I use Anticipatory (I actually spelled that right the first time; I'm surprised) or CFQ, it gets better, but real world experience in X is awful. Oh well, more on that later (I'm writing a I/O benchmarking script and will do a big benchmark sometime, keep on the look out :-) ).
X is also basically at a 7.5 level and is quite stable for me (except for a nasty memory leak I'm looking to plug), and e17 was updated. As is as usual, e17 is not *super* stable, but I'm using it right now, so it does certainly work :-) (it's really not too bad at all, but I would feel uncomfortable leaving it installed for any random user). It could mostly be that I got an unlucky svn revision though; I need to do some more e17 updates sometime. We've also got some Firefox 3.5.3 goodness, along with Gimp 2.6.7.
I've done a couple tweaks to the site, like with RSS/ATOM feeds and denying user registration (there is nothing useful in this part of the site, only the forums.
Thanks for reading!
--Teran (sega01)