Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Kjetil Mikkelborg kje_m at yahoo.no
Tue Dec 9 21:15:55 UTC 2003


The ext3 online fs growth patch, would really hit one of my sweet spots,
so I will gladly be one of the hopefully dozens of people who asks for
this to be included!

+1 on ext3 online fs growth ;)

tir, 09.12.2003 kl. 21.37 skrev Dave Jones:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:35, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> 
> > o Ext3 online fs growth (may get merged upstream ...)
> 
> This appeared in Arjan's 2.6 RPM, but I chose not to include
> it in the rawhide kernel. The reasoning behind this was the
> 'Stay close to mainline' objective of Fedora.
> 
> At some point before FC2 beta1, decisions are going to have to be
> made to decide how much we want to deviate away from this goal.
> User feedback is an important factor here. A feature 1-2 people want
> is far less likely to get included than something dozens of folks
> are clamouring for.
> 
> > o Packet-writing (http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/)
> 
> This one is unlikely. It's still not mature. See previous discussions
> on this list.
> 
> > o OpenIPMI (http://openipmi.sourceforge.net)
> 
> IPMI is part of the standard 2.6 kernel already.
> 
> > o UML - a User-mode Linux kernel.
> 
> Would make a good subproject.
> 
> > Functional/Performance testing:
> > 
> > o Regression Test suite.  Ideally, the user could chose to run
> >   (non-)destructive tests, compare with earlier runs, and optionally
> >   mail or POST the results (including a hardware description) to a central
> >   database.
> 
> Someone else on this list (Xose?) suggested this, and I agree it'd be
> good to have some stress test tools/regression suites. However I can't
> help thinking that they'd belong more in Fedora extras.
> 
> > o Oprofile "service" for long-term profiling, config file in
> >   /etc/sysconfig, etc., cron job to generate summaries, optionally mail
> >   or POST to central database. [Need to consider privacy issues.]
> 
> SELinux interaction with oprofile is an interesting problem that needs
> to be worked out.
> 
> > o CSSC - A base *nix install really ought to have SCCS-compatible tools,
> >   and the latest version works with BitKeeper's enhanced format.
> 
> Sounds reasonable.
> 
> > Generally, I see no reason to burden Fedora Core with lots more packages.
> > There can readily be "Best of Fedora Extras" CDs for the folks who don't
> > have broadband and need to install huge packages.
> 
> It'd be good to have some yum.conf/up2date defaults for 3rd party
> repositories included as standard too. Not all of them, but the more
> popular ones such as fedora.us
> 
> 	Dave





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