Re: My wishlist...

[Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Shawn Leas wrote:

> 	LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen (ftp://ftp.msede.com/pub/linux/lvm/)
> 	DevFS by Richard Gooch (needs no introduction)
> 	ReiserFS by Hans, of course
> 	gobs of FDs (Is this a Bill Hawes thing?)

Those things are definately cool, yes...

> 	ZONE allocation for Linux MM (see http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/todo.html)

We're busy designing something that avoids memory fragmentation
and allows the allocation of large (2 to 4 MB) chunks of physically
aligned memory. Alan, Stephen and Ingo are involved so I'm pretty
sure something nice will come into existance :)

cheers,

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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