The Linux 4.18 kernel series promises to be more light than previous branches as it does away with even more of that old, unused code than Linux kernel 4.17 did, which removed support for eight hardware architectures. One of the things removed in this release is the Lustre parallel distributed file system, as well as a few hardware drivers.
“We actually have managed to shrink things a bit more this release too,” said Linus Torvalds in the mailing list announcement. “The removal of Lustre may not be all that notable, because it does look like a lot of the development… (read more)
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