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Abstract
This redpaper is intended for technical staff within IBM, our customers, and our Business Partners who intend to make use of the latest version of the Linux kernel (V.2.4). The new kernel offers a number of features and enhancements not previously available, which make Linux even more suitable as an enterprise-class operating system. Features such as new file systems that support logical volumes and journaling, improvements to Samba, support for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networking, and support for a wider variety of hardware all combine to increase the attractiveness of Linux for many applications.
IBM has a strong commitment to Linux across all of its server platforms and nowhere more so than for the IBM eServer xSeries class of servers. xSeries systems provide an excellent platform for Linux deployment, with support for four distributions of Linux, namely, Red Hat Linux, Caldera OpenLinux, TurboLinux, and SuSE Linux.
Discussions of the Linux kernel are somewhat independent of the specific distribution being used. Because of this, we have used the Red Hat distribution for many of the examples, but they are easily extrapolated to the others.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. New file system features
Chapter 2. New network features
Chapter 3. Linux 2.4 kernel hardware support and performance
Chapter 4. Compiling the Linux 2.4 kernel