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- From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
- Subject: Re: The Third Degree
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.171354@hammer.Prime.COM>
- Keywords: questions
- Sender: cummings@hammer (Kevin Cummings)
- Organization: Prime Computer R&D
- References: <pz91Ht-g*8@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:13:54 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <pz91Ht-g*8@atlantis.psu.edu>, bairstow@copland.psu.edu (Steven Bairstow) writes:
- > My Linux partition just bit the dust, so I'm going to ask for some
- > information before I re-partititon it. (I want usr and swap partitions
- > instead of one big one this time.) Anyway I want responses from anybody
- > who knows about any of this, even if it's just a "yep." Without further
- > ado here are the questions....
- >
- > - Has anyone noticed free inodes being left around? I think
- > halt/shutdown is doing it. (This is what I was trying to figure
- > out when it crashed.)
- > - What is the current status of long filenames? Is it a patch?
- > How reliable is it?
- > - Do any of the current disk sets handle SCSI disks well? How about
- > the partitioning programs?
- > - How big are the X11 binaries plus whatever special stuff is needed
- > to write X-programs?
- > - Has anyone ever considered an X driver for plain VGA? Why or why
- > not make one?
- > - Is anyone interested in a patch that would add a timeout default
- > to the "Press <RETURN> to see SVGA modes or any other key to
- > continue." message?
-
- YES INDEED. I haven't had the time to work on this stuff lately, but a timeout
- would definately be useful. (Especially one with a configurable default, but then
- again I haven't looked at 0.97 or 0.97pl1, shame on me).
-
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