On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:15:14PM -0700, Lawrence Dickson wrote:
> I am solidly with Daniel on this. Why does no one ever use the fact that
> a graphical interface can be put on top of a text mode interface (we have
> multitasking don't we?) and thus kept equivalent instead of divergent?
> It is self-documenting too at the developer level.
> GUI means "Grossly Unpredictable Interface."
RH had to redo their installer. It was _bad_. I mean, the functionality
was good, but the code made it virtually impossible to extend in any sane
way.
Of course, it would have been nice, if they wrote a common ``core'', and
then slapped a GUI or curses front-end on it by user's choice. But I'm
sure they had reasons for doing whatever they did.
Oh, I'm sensing a slight vibration from the way-off-topic alert system
here :)
> On other topics, does 6.1 make any steps forward in hot-swapping
> robustness?
That would mean that they (which in turn probably means Ingo) did a kernel
patch that has not been released to us (the raid crash test dummies) for
wide testing. To me that sounds as inappropriate as it sounds unlikely.
The hot-swapping robustness has two points of failure as I see it:
1) With IDE disks, the hardware isn't usually well suited for it, although
it is absolutely possible. The Linux IDE subsystem is _rock_ solid.
2) With SCSI disks, the Linux SCSI layer is too fragile to properly handle
the errors that occur on the bus when you pull a device away (or a device
fails). This is unfortunate, because hot-swapping with SCSI would be
obvious and people expect it to work. But it seems as though a re-write
of the SCSI layer will have to wait for 2.5.X.
If anyone else has more insight into this, I'd be delighted to hear about
it.
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