My Linux Contributions

Richard Gooch

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Devfsd provides configurable management of device nodes using the Linux Device Filesystem. Download devfsd-v1.3.25.tar.gz for the current version. See my kernel patches for the Device Filesystem itself.
A configurable daemon which can process various Power Management events under Linux. You can download the gzipped tarfile. This is useful for applications such as setting the hard disc spin down time after a resume. Ancillary utilities are also supplied.

I'm now the maintainer of libc 5, the system library. The previous maintainer (H.J. Lu <hjl@valinux.com>) works on glibc instead, and has handed over maintenance to me. I will be posting announcements once a new home for the code has been set up.

Here are the various Linux-related papers I've written and presented:

An invited paper presented at the 2nd Annual Storage Management Workshop held in Miamia, Florida, U.S.A. in October 2000.

Utilities to recover damaged discs. These allow you to read from a damaged disc and write the disc image to a plain file. Damaged sectors get written as zeros in the file. A list of bad blocks is also generated to allow you to try successive passes over the disc in an attempt to recover more data. I'm told that expensive data recovery companies usually don't do anything more than this. Why spend $2000 when you can do it yourself? LSM and gzipped tarfile.
Utilities to list network interfaces and their bus addresses, and rename them based on their bus addresses. Available as a gzipped tarfile.