Which I/O scheduler as default [was Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists]

[Yusuf Goolamabbas]

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:42:19AM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> > Also, it would be nice to have libevent installed in FC2 (that would
> > help get applications migrated over to epoll)
> > 
> > http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
> 
> Here I thought that epoll was so simple no one would want to wrap it...
> (Yes, I understand that's not all libevent is)
> 
> We don't normally include libraries that are not required by software
> that's in the distribution.  To do otherwise would mean utter lack of
> testing.

However, libevent is standard in NetBSD,OpenBSD (not sure about FreeBSD)
so it's been tested from that perspective.

and if libevent were available in Fedora, applications would start to
use it and be scalable and portable at the same time

Similar if Michael Tokarev's TinyCDB implementation were made available
http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html, then maybe Wietse might even
consider including his CDB patch in an upcoming release

For those who want to build fast indexed files and don't want to go
through BerkeleyDB versioning hell, CDB is a godsend