Re: The Kernel

[Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Erik Walthinsen wrote:

> In fact, this might be one of the ways SEUL pushes the envelope. 
>
This isn't our job guys.  Remember a fella named Torvalds?  Used to live
in finland?  Whiz with source code?  That's his job.  We'd be defeating
the purpose of standardization if we hacked up a non-standard kernel.

> If we 
> find that for instance a log-structured filesystem is better for end-user 
> machines (reason: it survives ugly things like mounted power-off with 
> almost *no* loss, *and* fsck's in fewer seconds than you have fingers even 
> after that!), then we should seriously consider using it, if we can find 
> one and "nurture" it.
> 
An LFS would be REALLY pointless for the home user...  For all they care,
syslog.conf needs one line:
*.*					/dev/null


TTYL!


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