Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:46:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST |
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> I broke down my status list into 3 categories: > - likely to be merged before the Halloween feature freeze > - likely not to be ready by Halloween > - ongoing work
Before I start asking what about XXX, is there a list of what major stuff is already considered to be in? I don't see some things on your list, perhaps you regard them as done.
> After feature freeze:
I really hope these do get in!
> o New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens) I fear Keith might go SPC if this had to wait for 2.7 > o Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team) > o Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise) > o LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0 (LVM team) I thought these were all progressing nicely > o Page table sharing (Daniel Phillips) > o ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas Dilger) Definitely want to stabilize these > o UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing) (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund) Hopefully this is close as well > o Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team) could ease in 2.6.x if not? > o Add support for NFS v4 (NFS v4 team) This really shouldn't wait for 2.8! > o Remove the 2TB block device limit (Peter Chubb) This would help db folks now, and who knows how big a single drive will be before 2.7? > o Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds) Sure would be nice if it worked on desktops as well as laptops > o Add thrashing control (Rik van Riel)
I sure would like to see documentation improvements on this list! For 2.6 it would be beautiful is no features went into /proc/sys unless they went into the Documentation directory as well.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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