[haiku-development] Re: Haiku self-hosting.

  • From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:23:28 -0700

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 03:32 +0200, Stephan Assmus wrote:
> Hi Luposian,
> 
> > Copy a file in Haiku (while I don't think running it in an emulator 
> > should matter, run it on REAL hardware, as that is what I am using).  
> > Small, large, 100Mb, 500Mb.  It doesn't matter.  Wait until it looks 
> > like EVERYTHING is done.  The drive light is no longer lit or blinking 
> > at all.  Then wait even 30 seconds longer than that (just to make 
> > ABSOLUTELY sure Haiku is happy).  Hit F12, to go into Kernel Debugging 
> > mode, and then type "reboot".  When you reenter Haiku, look for where 
> > you copied your file.  On my system, it's gone.  Any number of files 
> > I've ever copied or unpacked or created... are gone when I do this 
> > ("spontaneous reboot").
> 
> the implementation of the writing back is not yet ideal. There is a
>  TODO in the code, it boils down to the fact that Haiku doesn't have an
>  I/O scheduler yet.

How come this was not added as a GSoC 2008 project? Sounds like a nice
challenge and something that Haiku could benefit from having.

Cheers,

Koki



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