| * add to lib/blkdev.c code for /proc/partitions parsing -- unfortunate we | |
| duplicate this code in many places. The parser has to support unlimited | |
| size (or 4096 bytes) of partition name. | |
| * fdisk/* -- use off_t instead "long long" | |
| * mkswap: use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid as a fallback solution for builds | |
| without libuuid | |
| * add --without-libuuid to disable mkswap(8) and libblkid linking against | |
| libuuid | |
| * use TZ=UTC for tests | |
| * add NLS and err.h stuff to schedutils (chrt.c, taskset.c) | |
| * move libblkid to util-linux-ng (see the topic/blkid branch) | |
| * add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock, | |
| see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132 | |
| * partx: copy sun.c, mac.c and dash.c from kpartx | |
| git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/storage/multipath-tools/.git | |
| It would be nice to merge kpartx and partx to the one project. We duplicate | |
| a lot of code (include losetup code in kpartx). | |
| * swapon -s -- LABELs support | |
| Although mkswap has recently been -L option to create a label nothing appears to | |
| have been change to swapon to display said labels. (rh#430386) | |
| * use canonicalize_file_name() when exist in glibc (see lib/canonicalize.v) | |
| * try improve compilation against others libc: | |
| - klibc | |
| - ??? | |
| * use rpmatch() for all Y/N questions | |
| * mount -a -- reorder fstab entries by paths before mount (just idea only) | |
| * mount -a (just idea only) | |
| Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 18:04:24 +0300 (MET DST) | |
| From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu> | |
| In the past the right record order could be figured out easily by just | |
| checking out fstab (if one knew what to look for) but considering the | |
| fastly increasing number of user space file systems and their usage, with | |
| their path, library, etc dependencies, it's getting trickier and is a black | |
| magic for most users because they simply expect drives to be mounted | |
| independently of their order in fstab. | |
| One typical, wrongly edited fstab example is: | |
| /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 | |
| /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 | |
| /dev/hda3 /usr ext3 defaults 0 0 | |
| The events: | |
| mount -> /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g -> | |
| -> resolves to <path1>/ntfs-3g via a symlink -> | |
| -> ntfs-3g requires at least <path2>/libfuse* | |
| There are many potential solutions. For example installing everything on | |
| the root file system which may be needed for successful mount. But this | |
| is not always feasible or practical since we could end up putting almost | |
| everything on the root file system in the end. | |
| Another idea is an improved mount strategy: | |
| do { | |
| try to mount all unmounted entries | |
| } while (not all mounted && at least one new was successfully mounted) | |
| * agetty: use nl_langinfo() for days and months rather than hardcoded | |
| English names. | |
| * rewrite ipcs to use /proc/sys/kernel rather than unreliable syscalls | |
| (there are problems with 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel) | |
| * minix v3 | |
| From: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de> | |
| Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:00:01 +0200 | |
| It seems that the kernel has support for minix fs v3 | |
| (though I have not tried it, just inspected some code when | |
| trying to find a mkfs.minix issue). | |
| It might be worth a thought implementing v3 support | |
| (though I am not really sure how much people us minix fs ;-) | |
| This might require some major code cleanup in mkfs.minix. | |
| * rtcwake does not support wake from S5/off | |
| http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449115 | |
| * add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility | |
| http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342 | |
| Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective | |
| security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the | |
| way other tools reports those. | |