>
> 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.
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> *** 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.
Have you ever noticed that syslogd adds a timestamp to every message?
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> *** Include the latest Fast Pentium memcpy() patch...
Please only as an option.
>
> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/linux.html
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> *** 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.
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> Thanks... I would appreciate any feedback...
>
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