On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Not a good week.
>
> On the other hand, the good news is that I'll open 2.5.x RSN, just
> because Alan is so much better at maintaining things;)
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 07:54, Alan Cox wrote:
> > And will Alan release 2.4.13 asap with Rik's VM? - (sorry, couldn't resist)
>
> I think 2.4.13 will be a Linus release
I'm going to cheat a bit and also give you my #2 feature-wish: I want native filesystem replication. I don't care a whit about common server-based disk store: you don't get reliability or scaleability that way. I want to see distributed (replicated, not partitioned) filesystems that are transactionally coherent[...]
This would indeed be a nice thing to have, and was, in fact, the subject of two years of work at my previous employer.
We were developing a filesystem named, variously, Charon, CXFS, and SSFS (Charon and CXFS turned out to be other people's trademarks).
It was a 64-bit journaled filesystem that used extensible hashing for directory layout, and provided named streams, ACLs and per-object quotas (i.e., per-volume, per-directory and per-file block and inode quotas). It used a distributed journaling system to synchronize data among several peers, and could perform partial filesystem replication (i.e., client local fs device size is smaller than server local fs device size, but client fs appears to be as large as the server's fs).
It included a system for mapping the local OS authentication and security identifiers to those from the other OSes participating in a replication group (such as unix UIDs/GIDs to NT SIDs, to kerberos tickets, etc.). All filesystem entities has 128-bit UUIDs to aid in this mapping.
We had begun port to FreeBSD and Windows 2000.
We were about 4 months short of having an alpha relase on Linux 2.4 before the company went bust. In short, it was over-engineered, and too ambitious. We should have started smaller; for instance, Linux 2.4 only, with nfs-style 'security'. Or FreeBSD-only.:)
After the sudden, complete, and total demise of the company we worked for, all of us on the team had to put our energy into paying bills and finding a job. So not much has happened since The End.
I can provide design info and even code if someone wants to help.
Win32 is not NT; it's just a service, much like OS/2, VDM and Posix APIs on NT. The "real operating system" is fairly close to VMS. No too surprising, considering David Cutler created NT for Microsoft. There has even been some feature-exchange between NT and OpenVMS.
If you think there is a problem with your TiVo, why don't you take it in to get it serviced?
Out of warranty. "Service" (swapout) costs half the price of a new unit. And I'm probably going to spend my future DVR dollars on that snazzy new Replay with ethernet...
Windows NT is arguably 23-year-old technology, as it is based on VMS. VMS was first released in 1978. Whippersnapper.
"30 year old technology" is not a valid criticism of Unix. Think of Unix as having been tested and refined for 30 years. The light bulb is "100 year old technology" (more or less), but we all use them. They're a lot better now, aren't they? Tested and refined over 100 years.
I will occasionally search for a product name on google, just to see who sells it! I do this because the ads on Google are not intrusive, annoying, etc. -- they are just informative!
I'm beta-testing Redhat 7.2, which includes the 2.4.7 kernel. Fat lot of good my bug reports would be if I started switching out major components, like the kernel.
Well, yeah, I read that. But what does it mean? Is MAME now part of the Linux virtual memory subsystem? Is it optimized for playing MP3s? What does this "major VM merge" contain, and what does it fix/break/improve?
So... how's the VM these days?
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: ;)
> Not a good week.
>
> On the other hand, the good news is that I'll open 2.5.x RSN, just
> because Alan is so much better at maintaining things
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 07:54, Alan Cox wrote:
> > And will Alan release 2.4.13 asap with Rik's VM? - (sorry, couldn't resist)
>
> I think 2.4.13 will be a Linus release
Here is the file in PDF, rather than "write" format:
P rotocol.pdf
http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/mirrors/The-AOL-
Have you looked at Mosix?
It provides pre-emptive process migration across machines in a cluster. Its a single-system-image clustering solution for Linux.
Why not just start a project on sourceforge?
http://cxfs.sourceforge.net/
It's not the latest, or all of, the code.
This would indeed be a nice thing to have, and was, in fact, the subject of two years of work at my previous employer.
We were developing a filesystem named, variously, Charon, CXFS, and SSFS (Charon and CXFS turned out to be other people's trademarks).
It was a 64-bit journaled filesystem that used extensible hashing for directory layout, and provided named streams, ACLs and per-object quotas (i.e., per-volume, per-directory and per-file block and inode quotas). It used a distributed journaling system to synchronize data among several peers, and could perform partial filesystem replication (i.e., client local fs device size is smaller than server local fs device size, but client fs appears to be as large as the server's fs).
It included a system for mapping the local OS authentication and security identifiers to those from the other OSes participating in a replication group (such as unix UIDs/GIDs to NT SIDs, to kerberos tickets, etc.). All filesystem entities has 128-bit UUIDs to aid in this mapping.
We had begun port to FreeBSD and Windows 2000.
We were about 4 months short of having an alpha relase on Linux 2.4 before the company went bust. In short, it was over-engineered, and too ambitious. We should have started smaller; for instance, Linux 2.4 only, with nfs-style 'security'. Or FreeBSD-only.
After the sudden, complete, and total demise of the company we worked for, all of us on the team had to put our energy into paying bills and finding a job. So not much has happened since The End.
I can provide design info and even code if someone wants to help.
Good googley moogley, the trolls have found a way around the [hint.com] that we get for links now.
U :w ww.slashdot.org
This is the link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:bNohi649ix
And I don't even want to describe what it is a picture of. Worse than goatse.cx...
Or rather, "halt and catch fire"
History! Comes! Alive! Before! Your! Eyes!
For the same reason that people who know something about English (for instance) write their own poetry, prose, legal contracts, etc.
Hmm... how about "Display SVG" - like DisplayPostscript...
Win32 is not NT; it's just a service, much like OS/2, VDM and Posix APIs on NT. The "real operating system" is fairly close to VMS. No too surprising, considering David Cutler created NT for Microsoft. There has even been some feature-exchange between NT and OpenVMS.
If you think there is a problem with your TiVo, why don't you take it in to get it serviced?
Out of warranty. "Service" (swapout) costs half the price of a new unit. And I'm probably going to spend my future DVR dollars on that snazzy new Replay with ethernet...
Windows NT is arguably 23-year-old technology, as it is based on VMS. VMS was first released in 1978. Whippersnapper.
"30 year old technology" is not a valid criticism of Unix. Think of Unix as having been tested and refined for 30 years. The light bulb is "100 year old technology" (more or less), but we all use them. They're a lot better now, aren't they? Tested and refined over 100 years.
I would be a lot happier with my TiVo if it didn't flake out so much.
Sometimes it doesn't record sound, records only a few seconds of a show, etc.
I will occasionally search for a product name on google, just to see who sells it! I do this because the ads on Google are not intrusive, annoying, etc. -- they are just informative!
Is there a way to simply run ASP from within Apache for Windows?
It would be a much simpler solution...
Add the word "again" to the end of your post.
I suppose I could go to jail now over that stupid cuecat stuff.
Sigh.
Your definitions of 'good' and 'evil' are highly disputable.
You are an arrogant prick, but thanks for providing a little info anyway.
Guffaw. How would I go about getting a subscription to the Private Eye over here in the States?
Seriously... whats up with this?
Humor. H-U-M-O-R.
"Haha, Linux has to run Windows viruses under emulation, otherwise it wouldn't have any."
Wow, "swapoff -a" takes for-freaking-ever to run.
Dr. Mr. Genius,
I'm beta-testing Redhat 7.2, which includes the 2.4.7 kernel. Fat lot of good my bug reports would be if I started switching out major components, like the kernel.
I would only forgive that comment if...
Bite me, bitch.
major VM merge
Well, yeah, I read that. But what does it mean? Is MAME now part of the Linux virtual memory subsystem? Is it optimized for playing MP3s? What does this "major VM merge" contain, and what does it fix/break/improve?
I ask as a swap-laden 2.4.7 user...