Re: 2.7 thoughts

From: Pedro Larroy
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 16:00:06 EST


On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:58:09PM +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:08:00AM +0200, Frederick, Fabian wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Some thoughts for 2.7.Someone has other ideas, comments ?
> [...]
> > * All this guides me to a more global conclusion in which all that
> > stuff should be kobject registration relevant
> > * Meanwhile, we don't have a kobject <-> security bridge :(
>
> well, maybe stupid ideas, but they're which supported on other unix like
> system(s) or it would be very nice according to my experiences:
>
> * bind mount support for all general mount options (nodev,ro,noexec etc)
> with SECURE implementation with any (maybe even future) filesystems?
> * union mount (possible with option to declare on what fs a new file
> should be created: on fixed ones, random algorithm, on fs with the
> largest free space available etc ...)
> * guaranteed i/o bandwidth allocation?
> * netfilter's ability to do tricks which OpenBSD can do now with its
> packet filter

Can you describe those please?

> * ENBD support in official kernel with enterprise-class 'through the
> network' volume management
> * more and more tunable kernel parameters to be able to have some user
> space program which can 'tune' the system for the current load,usage,etc
> of the server ("selftune")
> * more configuration options to be able to use Linux at the low end as well
> (current kernels are too complex, too huge and sometimes contains too
> many unwanted features for a simple system, though for most times it is
> enough but can be even better)

Maybe hardware detection -> automatic kernel configuration maker


> * maybe some 'official in the kernel' general framework to implement
> virtual machines without the need to load third party kernel modeles
> from vmware, plex86 etc ...
>


Regards.
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Pedro Larroy Tovar | piotr%member.fsf.org

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