Merge pull request #16142 from poettering/random-seed-cmdline

[thirdparty/systemd.git] / TODO

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@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ External:
 
 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
 
-* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
-
 Janitorial Clean-ups:
 
 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
@@ -22,12 +20,6 @@ Features:
 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
   in and out of a disk image
 
-* add systemd.random_seed= on the kernel cmdline, taking some hex or base64
-  encoded data. During earliest boot, credit it to entropy. This is not useful
-  for general purpose systems, but certainly for testing environments in VMs
-  and such, as it allows us to boot up instantly with fully initialized entropy
-  pool even if RNG pass-thru is not available.
-
 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
 
 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
@@ -41,6 +33,10 @@ Features:
   so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
   anything like that.
 
+* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
+  client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
+  user's journal stream down but not the others.
+
 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
   often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
   /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
@@ -167,6 +163,10 @@ Features:
   - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
   - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
 
+* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
+  for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
+  activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
+
 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
   allow so that systemd survives
 
@@ -228,6 +228,23 @@ Features:
 
 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
 
+* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
+  doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
+  is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
+  of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
+  and XBOOTLDR is added in instead.  Then apply the former first, and if it
+  fails to apply use the latter.
+
+* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
+  and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
+
+* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
+  i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
+
+* systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
+  size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
+  SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
+
 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
   them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)