journaling or not. I don't think there has to be one default. A user

application can't know, it's a system management issue. Right now, ext2 is

the default just because everybody uses it, it works fine, everybody

trusts it because it's been around for some 8 years.

Does it matter that the Specmark was set on Dell hardware?

It could probably have been set on any hardware. But it does matter that

it was set on Dell hardware. I'm not trying to push Dell. The reason it

was done on Dell hardware because Dell was involved in the testing. Dell

actually put in a lot of resources in the testing. It's easy to say that

we'll sell you a Linux machine. It actually takes some effort to say that

we'll sell you a Linux machine and we'll put up our lab to actually show

that this is the right combination. I'm sure that we'll see others doing

the same for other benchmarks.

This becomes an example of the most effective web serving possible

today with commodity hardware and Linux. Is this an announcement that we can

beat anybody with Linux?

At the same time you know than benchmarks are worse than lies. In this

benchmark if you beef up the machine enough, and use a Linux kernel with

an internal Web server then you will beat all the others. It's using

fairly bleeding edge technology even on the software side. But let's be

honest here. Benchmarks are benchmarks. They have nothing to do with

reality.

Will the internal Web server be available? How will it be available?

Right now it's a specialized set of patches on top of the 2.4 test

kernels. The intention is that it's not going to be in 2.4. It was

fairly new code and it came in after the cut off date. It was so obviously

new that I had no problem saying "not 2.4.0". I don't know when. You will

probably find that Red Hat or someone will ship it as a server product.

Will this be a solution instead of running Apache on top of Linux?

It's actually going to a combination so that you can fall back depending

on your need. Like if you need Perl, you don't want to have Perl in the

kernel.

Did you do the internal server for the benchmarks?

It was actually done by Ingmarr. His personal quest was to completely

destroy the Mindcraft numbers. He took those numbers very personally. It

wasn't just him, it was actually a lot of other people but he was at the

center of it all.