Try 2.4 for some of those
> *) ext2 successor: log based, with all interesting features (fsck'ing 7GB
> sucks)
Someone is working a bit on this.
> *) a better NFS implementation.
In progress.
> *) Swap-over-NFS.
Patches exist but they need a vm guru to verify their correctness before
they can go in the main tree. In the mean time they are just sitting waiting
> *) TCP based NFS? (v3 was that one, right?)
You can do NFSv2 over TCP as well - NFS runs over RPC and RPC is specified
for TCP, UDP and other transports.
> PnP better? It's even not that critical, because it's only ISA-PnP: So
> nowadays it's rather unusual that somebody has his root fs on SCSI disc
> connected to a ISA Plug-n-Pray SCSI controller, right?
ISApnp can't solve all the problems
> Anything not needed for mounting the rootfs can easily be done from the
> userland tools, right?
Not resource arbitration and reassignment. Picking a suitable initial
assignment maybe
Alan