Re: Rik's list of CS challenges

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-09-17 at 10:52, Terje Eggestad wrote:
> What become more interesting is that while you may have NV RAM, it's not
> likely that MRAM is viable on the processor chip. The manufacture
> process may be too expensive, or outright impossible, (polymers on chips
> that hold 80 degrees C in not likely), leaving you with volatile
> register and cache but NV Main RAM. 

We effectively handle that case now with the suspend-to-ram feature.

> A merge of FS and RAM? (didn't the AS/400 have mmap'ed disks?)

Persistant storage systems. These tend to look very unlike Linux because
they throw out the idea of a file system as such. The issues with
debugging if they break and backups make my head hurt but other folk
seem to think they are solved problems
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