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 From : Slawa Olhovchenkov                   2:5030/500     05 Dec 2004  04:37:58
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 Subject : Вести с полей
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 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
 Subject: My project wish-list for the next 12 months
 
 All,
 
 I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising
 specific features for the next major release.  However, I'd like to
 throw out a list of things that would be really nice to have in the
 future, whether its 6.0 or 7.0 or whatever.  Most of these tasks are
 not trivial, but I hope that talking about them will encourage some
 interest.  These are in no particular priority order.  I'd also be
 thrilled if someone wanted to dress this list up in docbook and add
 it to the webpage.  While this is just my personal list, I'd welcome
 other additions to it (in the sense of significant projects, not just
 individual PRs or bug fixes that one might be interested in).
 
 1.  Keyboard multiplexer.  We are running into problems with making
 ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs.
 Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real
 keyboard devices and handles hotplug can solve this mess pretty
 effectively.  I know that there has been a lot of talk about this on
 mailing lists recently but I don't know how much progress is being made
 so I'm listing it here.
 
 2.  New installer.  I know some people still consider this a joke, but
 the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art.  It's
 fairly good at the simple task that it does, but it's becoming harder
 and harder to fix bugs and extend functionality in it.  It's also
 fairly unfriendly to those of us who haven't been using it since 1995.
 The DFly folks have some very interesting work in this area
 (www.bsdinstaller.com) and it would be very good to see if we can
 collaborate with them on it.
 
 3.  Native PCI Express support.  I keep on hoping to take care of this,
 but I never seem to have the time to get past designing it.  This task
 includes 3 parts that are mostly independent.  The first is support for
 the extended PCI config space and memio access method, the second is
 MSI, and the third is link QOS management.  If anyone is interested
 here, please let me know.
 
 4.  Journaled filesystem.  While we can debate the merits of speed and
 data integrety of journalling vs. softupdates, the simple fact remains
 that softupdates still requires a fsck run on recovery, and the
 multi-terabyte filesystems that are possible these days make fsck a very
 long and unpleasant experience, even with bg-fsck.  There was work at
 some point at RPI to add journaling to UFS, but there hasn't been much
 status on that in a long time.  There have also been proposals and
 works-in-progress to port JFS, ReiserFS, and XFS.  Some of these efforts
 are still alive, but they need to be seen through to completion.  But at
 the risk of opening a can of worms here, I'll say that it's also
 important to explore non-GPL alternatives.
 
 5.  Clustered FS support.  SANs are all the rage these days, and
 clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many
 storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very
 powerful.  RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source
 code, so exploring this would be very interesting.
 
 6.  Overhaul CAM, add iSCSI.  CAM is very parallel-SCSI centric right
 now.  I have some work-in-progress in Perforce to address this, but it's
 pretty minimal.  The parallel SCSI knowledge needs to be separated out
 and the stack need to be able to cleanly deal with iSCSI, SCSI, SAS, and
 maybe even ATA transports.  There is a Lucent implementation of iSCSI
 for FreeBSD 4.x that could be a useful reference, though it's a
 monolithic stack that doesn't really address the shortcomings of CAM.
 Having iSCSI infrastructure that supported both hardware and software
 implementations would be ideal.
 ... Стоп, себе думаю, а не дурак ли он?
 --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5
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