Re: first thread

[Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Christof Damian wrote:

> > "What is your favorite kernel feature that _didn't_
> >  make it in time for 2.2?"
> 
> - large file support for ia32 (for big mysql databases)

I had read "make it in time for 2.2" as "was complete but not
merged".  It will be a nice thing to have (although I'd rather
just buy an alpha or sparc64 :)

> - LFS (for really big file servers, something like reiserfs would be
> nice too, and growing partitions would be nice)

Indeed.  SCT's volume stuff for ext2 looks interesting.  I'd like to see
that completed and merged into 2.3..

> - devfs (for the file servers too)

- - devfs (for the file servers too)
+ - 32bit kdev_t with ext2 and reiserfs support

IMHO :)

Matthew.

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