Things to consider before 2.0.0

Jeff Johnson (trn@gate.net)
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 18:13:33 -0400 (EDT)


These are the things that I believe should be changed before 2.0.0 is
released. I really don't attempt to make patches, because I am not that
good of a coder, and I am not that familiar with the kernel source. I'd
rather let efficient programmers make the patch.

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*** Change the VFS code in ./fs/devices.c:

> if (!fops->check_media_change(dev))
> return 0;
>
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "VFS: Disk change detected on device %s\n",
> kdevname(dev));
> for (i=0 ; i<NR_SUPER ; i++)
> if (super_blocks[i].s_dev == dev)

This code snippet is located right around line 211. I would recommend
also printing the date/time of the disk change, since this can be logged,
and someone might want to know when disks are changed.

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*** Include the latest Fast Pentium memcpy() patch...

http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/linux.html

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*** Include some kind of CPU/memory quotas, such as in VAX/VMS.

If this is possible, can someone please give me some pointers,
or information? This would be rather useful. A start could
be the tuner daemon, that runs in user modes adjusts priorites.
I would think it would require kernel hooks to accomplish such
a task, so that is why I post this is the linux-kernel list.

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Thanks... I would appreciate any feedback...

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