From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262458AbTLWWlD (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:41:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262694AbTLWWlD (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:41:03 -0500 Received: from amsfep14-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.22]:17224 "EHLO amsfep14-int.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262458AbTLWWlA (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:41:00 -0500 From: Jos Hulzink To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.7 (future kernel) wish Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:42:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312232342.17532.josh@stack.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, First of all... Compliments about 2.6.0. It is a superb kernel, with very few serious bugs, and for me it runs stable like a rock from the very first moment. As an end user, Linux doesn't give me a good feeling on one particular item yet: Error handling. What do I mean ? Well... for example: Pull out your USB stick with a mounted fs on it. Linux doesn't really seem to like it, got weird problems etc. It will survive, sure, but the user got no clue and data are lost for sure. Bad sectors on a disk... Linux will pass, but even 2.6.0 went very slow, unresponsive when a floppy with bad sectors went into the drive. Many other non-critical or solvable problems that are dealt with in a way that makes linux survive (most of the times), but not in a way that is neat from the user point of view. It all just doesn't feel like Linux is doing the best it can to "rescue the user" when something is going wrong. Technically speaking, it's not only the task of the kernel to do so, but for an end user it makes the difference between an OS that does its job, and an OS that does its job nicely. I think it's hard to describe what I mean exactly, but I hope you get the feeling. I too know that some of this is not within scope of the kernel (it's not the kernels task to tell the user "put back the USB drive or data is lost"), but after dealing with broken floppies again, I thought it was time to write my feelings to the list. Best regards, and thanks for the wonderful world of Linux, Jos