Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: PnP in 2.2 | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:22:29 +0000 (GMT) |
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> perhaps because of my shopping-strategy? What would be cool for the > official kernel ASAP (==2.2?):
Try 2.4 for some of those
> *) ext2 successor: log based, with all interesting features (fsck'ing 7GB > sucks)
Someone is working a bit on this.
> *) a better NFS implementation.
In progress.
> *) Swap-over-NFS.
Patches exist but they need a vm guru to verify their correctness before they can go in the main tree. In the mean time they are just sitting waiting
> *) TCP based NFS? (v3 was that one, right?)
You can do NFSv2 over TCP as well - NFS runs over RPC and RPC is specified for TCP, UDP and other transports.
> PnP better? It's even not that critical, because it's only ISA-PnP: So > nowadays it's rather unusual that somebody has his root fs on SCSI disc > connected to a ISA Plug-n-Pray SCSI controller, right?
ISApnp can't solve all the problems
> Anything not needed for mounting the rootfs can easily be done from the > userland tools, right?
Not resource arbitration and reassignment. Picking a suitable initial assignment maybe
Alan
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