Re: 2.7 thoughts

[Pedro Larroy <piotr@member.fsf.org>]

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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