Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:25:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Brad Keryan <> | Subject | Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals? |
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On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, James Mastros wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, linux kernel account wrote: > [...] > > I suggest 3.0 be released once all the below are accomplished, many of > > them already are but they need to be stable and around long enough to have > > userspace utils.. > > > > * Ext2fs (call it ext3 perhaps) improvements: > > * Room in inode for 64-bit files > > * Room in inode for 64-bit times (ctime/mtime/ possibly drop atime) > What for? Milisecond acuracy is good enough. Drop atime? Why not ctime? > atime is useful for deciding what to move to archival storage/compress.
What for? So we can continue using Linux in 2038. __u32 will only go so far. I agree atime should stay, though.
> > * An alternate FS, (can be beta) > > * Faster operation would be nice (see reiserfs) > > * Faster checking (supposidly this will also happen in reiserfs eventually) > > * Needn't be as mature as ext2 (can be a expirmental option) > OK... I don't see having expermental fses in a stable tree as very good, > however.
Log-structured filesystems sound extremely good on paper. Is there a stable, fast, log-structured filesystem for any OS at this point?
> > * GGI support (evstack!) config option. > Not gonna happen in 2.2... 2.3, possibly.
Optional GGI support would be good. I don't know if it would necessarily get people to write more KGI drivers (hint: there is quite a lot of work to be done on video chipset support, judging from the GGI snapshot I tried in December).
Brad
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