Re: What i would like to see in upcoming kernel releases...

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> > 2. Kernel dumps:
> >    Same applies for this one: kernel dumps have been proven to be
> >    a very helpful debugging tool.
> 
> NetBSD is known for dumping onto the WRONG partition.
> 
> > 3. Log-structuered and/or journaled filesystem:
> >    There has been lots of talk about those two as well.  They are
> >    a definite must for HA systems.  Despite all the talk about
> >    reiser-fs and such, the best would be to simply port the BSD stuff
> >    to Linux (same goes for Berkeley FFS as a replacement of EXT2FS).
> 
> Compared to Reiserfs, the BSD stuff sucks. BSD doesn't have a working
> log-structuered or journaled filesystem, and FFS isn't fast at all.
> Our ext2 works quite well, though Stephen Tweedie is adding new stuff
> like journaling, fast B-tree directories, and fast B-tree allocation.

Yet, it'd be good for compability with full FFS-support, right?!
 
> Only AdvFS (in Digital UNIX) and XFS (in Irix) stand a chance
> against Reiserfs. Both FFS/UFS and Ext2 are obsolete now.
> FreeBSD can kiss its ass goodbye.

What kind of file-system does Solaris, AIX and other important Unix'es
use?!

[snip]

> > 2. PNP:
> >    Is that stuff still being developed? Last time i checked it was quite
> >    out-of-date...
> 
> Someone needs to convince Linus.

== Someone needs to show Linus that (s)he is willing to maintain the PNP
stuff.


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