Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:25:56 -0700 | From | Dara Hazeghi <> | Subject | Linux 2.3.21 Gripes. |
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I've generally been pretty happy with the kernel especially in the nice days of 2.2.0pre4 etc. However things have devolved since then. Stable kernels have become capable of hard lockupsm, unstable kernels have repeatedly broken things I am rather fond of and so forth. Here is a list of things I would like to see remedied (in no particular order). * AFFS support: Broken in 2.3.7 for good reason or so I was told. 14 updates later it has still not been repaired. * HFS support: Same deal. If something is going to be broken, it would be nice if people would be willing to fix it. * NTFS support: The only one of these three filesystems I really need. Same story. To make matters worse, my only working 2.2.X kernel (RedHat 6.1 2.2.13+patches) doesn't come with a module for it and any kernel I build from its source seems to bomb. * 1MB+ Kernels: I don't know the precise breaking point, but it is not nice after a 25minute compilation to discover your kernel is too big. I know there are technical reasons, but this is an issue that'll have to be addressed sooner or later, and getting started sooner does have advantages. * Slow recompilation: When I build a kernel and it doesn't complete, usually I change the offending option to off, and recompile. However every single thing gets rebuilt. Again, some of us have slow machines and this is not a good thing for us. * Slow fsck: When I have to do an fsck (which seems more and more often) it often take more than 10 minutes on a 5GB root partition. This is a Ultra2 SCSI drive which isn't that slow either. I know reiserfs and Stephen Tweedie's journaled ext2 deal with this, but they have not yet been ported to 2.3.X and so I'm stuck waiting 10minutes every time another 2.2.13pre breaks on me.
Please don't take this the wrong way. I like using Linux for what it is, and I will continue to appreciate it whether or not these issues are addressed. It's just that from the user standpoint, some of these things really do need to be addressed.
Dara Hazeghi
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