Si si ca devrait changer des choses notamment ce qui pourrait m'intéresser.
Le noyau 2.6.18 amène une grosse mise à jour de la librairie SATA.
Big libata (SATA) update
(LWN article) Mainstream libata has been missing some features like NCQ and hot plug. The code had been written a while ago (more than a year ago in the case of NCQ) but only now it has been considered stable. The features included in this update are: a revamped error handling across all the libata code, which makes libata more robust to errors and failures, and makes easier to debug problems (commit); NCQ (Native Command Queuing) which improves the performance greatly for many workloads) (commit), hotplug (commit), warmplug (commit), and bootplug - boot probing via hotplug path - support (commit), interrupt-driven PIO mode (instead of the inefficient poll method), (commit), add MCP61 support (commit)
http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges