On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, David A. Bandel wrote:
>
> Just because a filesystem is in the kernel, do we need to test on it?
> Take a look at all the foreign filesystems out there. I think we need
> to stick to Linux filesystems (in the kernel, not ext3 or SGI's or IBM's
> becuse they're not in the kernel): ext2, reiserfs for the moment. But
> then there's also /proc, usbdevfs, devfs, shm (/dev/shm).
>
Yes, we need to test on the standard Linux filesystem (currently ext2).
Foreign ones are either simply that, foreign, or otherwise non-standard. I
questioned ext3, reiser and xfs because they are widely used. However, I
believe as it did not make our JAS at the current time, that we should
either a) save to seed into Level 2 as use grows, or b) save to use in
Level 3 exams (which you asked about below).
> As for files, we have: /etc/mtab, /etc/fstab, and let's not forget
> /proc/mounts.
>
Good.
> For programs, we have: mount, fsck (fsck.ext2 or whatever it's called on
> your system), badblocks, debugfs and debugreiserfs. Then there's
> tune2fs.
>
Good.
> Question: is there a level above this still, or is the "next level"
> specific areas (like security, firewalls, etc.)?
>
Yes, LPI does intend to do another Level above the Level 2, Sr Sysadmin.
We are intending to have specific specialist exams at this level. What
those specific areas will be, however, will be determined during an
analysis phase like we've had for the other Level's target audiences and
such. However, I would suspsect them to be geared toward specifically what
you addressed, Security Specialists, Web Specialists, and such. Discussion
about the direction of Level 3 is being held now with a Level 3 advisory
council. Likely you'll hear more once we have Level 2 pushed out into beta
publishing stage.
Thanks for great feeback David!
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