Re: 2.6 suggestions and stuff

[Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>]

"Paul E. Arnold" <bassman@bass.org> writes:

> Things that would be nice to have in 2.6 OpenBSD
> -------------------------------------------------
> - Add swapctl to the i386 and sparc distribution. 
>    (or some way to see swap size)

swapctl is included on all platforms in 2.6

> - Add vi (static binary) to the boot/recovery floppy
>    ( I know ex, cat and rm are there but editing with those, what a pain)

Won't fit on the floppy.

> - Generic kernel have allocated swap partion on all b partions by default
>    (ie. /dev/sd0b, /dev/sd1b, /dev/sd2b, /dev/sd3b, /dev/sd4b, /dev/sd5b)

2.6 has a new swap system and you don't have to add those partitions.

> Things that would be nice to have in future releases of OpenBSD
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> - i386 multi-processor support (FreeBSD has it, even BSDI has it, and
>   little cousin linux is bragging that is has it.)
>   (I have machines that are dual processor that I had go linux because no
>   no OpenBSD port :(  )

Right now we don't have anyone who can do this. I'm working slowly on
multiprocessor support for sparc.

> - A better way to keep a log of all tcp/udp connections 
>   (Right now I run a lsof script that appends to a file, there should be a
>   more efficient way to do this.) ( This does not work with sparc OpenBSD
>   because lsof wouldn't compile)

AFAIK lsof should compile on sparc in 2.6.

> - Integrate xfs (the new open source of SGI's filesystems)

Why?

//art