Re: What's almost ready?

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

>>> - devfs
>>> - reiserfs
>>> - lots of fd's (its in the ac patches)
>>> - large files (well there is a patch, I have no idea how good it is)
>>> - ALSA seems to pretty much working
>> 
>> That's shorter than I thought.  How about setting an arbitrary
>> deadline (say two months) for anybody who wants into 2.3 to
>> show half-way workable code.  Then you open up 2.5 and stabalize
>> 2.3 more-or-less at the same time.
>
> well thats all i could think of at the moment, but I bet there is more
> if you look around the other linux mailinglists.

Yes.

DECnet
Large file support
Ext2 ACLs (which I despise for their wimpyness)
RT-Linux
UDF filesystem
Ext2 compression
VMS (Files-11,ODS-2) filesystem
SGI's old EFS filesystem
shmfs filesystem
Per-user limits
SuperMount
KGI
raw IO
new makefiles
32-bit UID
OOM process killer
revoke()

I try to maintain a Linux kernel wishlist at
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~acahalan/linux/wishlist.html
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