Re: My draft for a Wishlist for v2.6/v3.0

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

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Philipp Rumpf wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:26:30AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> > o Full IP6 support (The reason I didn't include this in v2.4 was that it
> > doesn't seem to be fully standardised yet)
> > o HFS+ support
> > o BeOS JFS support
> > o Support for the Power-processor (Older RS/6000 boxes)
> > o Better SGI support
> > o m88k support
> 
> This all looks like it could be added easily (well, sort of) to an existing
> kernel without breaking the old functionality.

Yup. The problems are that we need documentation for them. And at least
BeOS JFS and HFS+ are quite "hush-hush"-ish, if I'm not all wrong.

> > o Raw FS (I don't think this is important enough to go into v2.4, but
> > eventually I think we should include it)
> 
> Hm, what IS raw fs, actually ?

Access to a partition without caching through the VFS. Something like a
swap-partition, really. For databases, for instance, you could use a raw
filesystem to store the database on. The database would take care of all
the virtual file-handling, and make sure everything was consistent, etc.

At least, that's my idea of what it is.

/David Weinehall
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