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BSD and Linux Kernel: Now Even Greg Kroah Hartman Admits Slop is a Major Nuisance
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Ruben Schade ☛ Messing with modern ZFS compression options
Inline compression is wonderful. I don’t need to rotate logs to compressed files. I can temporarily expand virtual disks to raw images without taking up the entire maximum space of the disk. It’s also great for thwarting zipbomb attacks!
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University of Toronto ☛ Where a Linux kernel memory allocation error comes from
This particular function has cropped up before, and this message from it means that you're hitting a limit on how much memory the kernel will let the process ask for under the current circumstances. Generally this means you're operating in strict overcommit mode, because it's hard (but not impossible) to get the Linux kernel to refuse to give you memory otherwise.
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The Linux community has developed a new policy regarding AI-generated code.
Greg Kroah Hartman, a key Linux kernel developer, announced new rules regarding the use of large language models and artificial intelligence. Effective immediately, all patches for the drivers/staging/ subsystem created using neural networks will be automatically rejected. An exception will be made only for genuine security fixes that have passed preliminary testing and benchmarking on physical hardware.