Re: 2.7 thoughts

From: Stuart Longland
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 01:22:44 EST


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Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
* hotplug CPU
* hotplug RAM

* hotplug motherboard & entire computer too I spose ;-)

Although sarcasm aside, a couple of ideas that have been bantered around on this list (and a few of my own ideas):

- /proc interface alternative to modutils/module-init-tools.

That is, to have a directory of virtual nodes in /proc
to provide the functionality of insmod, rmmod, lsmod &
modprobe would be great -- especially from the viewpoint
of recue disk images, etc.

- Software RAID 0+1 perhaps?

A lot of hardware RAID cards support it, why not the
kernel? By RAID 0+1 I mean mirror-RAIDing two (or more) stripe-RAID arrays. (Or can this be done already?)

- Transparent Software-RAID for IDE RAID cards...
This could be done by using the Software RAID
functionality of the kernel, but making the RAID
interface transparent, so you only see a /dev/md?
device, rather than multiple /dev/?da* entries.

- Support for the Casio DV-01 USB digital notetaker.

Just some thoughts...
And I spose, a few people have mentioned this already, what is planned for Linux 3.0?
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