Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:59:05 +0200 | Subject | Re: 2.7 thoughts | From | Pedro Larroy <> |
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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. -- Pedro Larroy Tovar | piotr%member.fsf.org
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