Re: 2.3.x wish list?

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Thu, 13 May 1999 05:00:46 +0300 (EEST)


Have a look at:
http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com/
you might become surprised...

> Is there one of these going around yet? Here are the features that I
> would enjoy, and I believe are kernel space issues:
>
> - Encryption at the IP level (IPsec?)

It is, and betas will appear soon for 2.2.* kernels.
It will *never* be part of the standard kernel, because
US Government thinks that encryption is equal to munitions..

> - ext2 is showing its age on larger partitions; my 3 9 gig drives
> take about a half hour to fsck, and up to a minute just to mount.
> My database server will need support for +2gig files by the end
> of the year. "go to a 64 bit machine" is not reasonable for
> everyone. 8^)

ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/

> - GGI

Dunno ? Perhaps in 2.3.*

> Well I can't think of any more. I have been quite satisfied all along
> really, since 1.0.x. Keep up the good work.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

/Matti Aarnio

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