Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist | Date | Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:36:55 +0100 (BST) |
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> from ftp.inr.ac.ru. We may have a problem because it needs DES, > but then our standard libc already contains DES code so most Linux > distributors are already "international arms dealers" anyway :-).
US citizens cannot use it anyway due to patents. Secure NFS for all but the US is not a problem.
> - the ext2 filesystem is quite good at recovering from crashes, > but it could be made even better (and probably only slightly > slower) by always syncing dirty buffers to disk in the right > order. For example, write data blocks, then indirect blocks > pointing to them, then inode blocks pointing to the data or > indirect blocks. This way the filesystem on disk would stay > consistent all the time.
Erm.. 1. A lot slower 2. Write ordering also has US patent issues (couldnt you guys just all move country)
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