From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 14:38:00 2014
Return-Path: This is a draft of the April-June 2014 status report.
Please check back after it is finalized, and an announcement
- email is sent to the FreeBSD-Announce mailing
+ email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing
list. This report covers &os;-related projects between April and
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
With all these improvements, and earlier improvements in CAM,
GEOM, ZFS, and a number of other kernel areas coming soon,
- FreeBSD 10.1 may become the fastest storage release ever.
+ &os; 10.1 may become the fastest storage release ever.
;) These projects are sponsored by iXsystems, Inc. Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator
- stack released in FreeBSD 10.0, Chelsio Communications has
+ stack released in &os; 10.0, Chelsio Communications has
begun developing an offload interface to take advantage of the
hardware offload capabilities of Chelsio T4 and T5 10 and 40
gigabit Ethernet adapters.
FreeBSD received 39 project proposals this year, many of +
&os; received 39 project proposals this year, many of which were of a very high standard. After a difficult selection process narrowing these down into the slots we had been allocated, a total of 16 projects were selected to - participate in Google Summer of Code 2014 with FreeBSD.
+ participate in Google Summer of Code 2014 with &os;. -Projects selected cover a wide range of areas within FreeBSD, +
Projects selected cover a wide range of areas within &os;, covering both the base system and ports infrastructure, userland and kernel. We have students working on firewall optimisation, ports packaging tools, embedded systems, @@ -1463,9 +1463,9 @@ enhancements to the loader and to the installer, and several other areas of work. We are just over half way through the allocated time this year, and are very much looking forward to - integrating code produced by these projects into FreeBSD.
+ integrating code produced by these projects into &os;. -This is the tenth time FreeBSD has taken part in Google's +
This is the tenth time &os; has taken part in Google's Summer of Code, and we are grateful to Google to have accepted us as a participating organisation.
@@ -1583,12 +1583,23 @@Deficiencies in the current automounter, amd(8), are + a recurring problem reported by many &os; users. A new + automounter is being developed to address these concerns.
+ +The automounter is a cleanroom implementation of + functionality available in most other Unix systems, using + proper kernel support implemented via an autofs filesystem. + The automounter supports a standard map format, and will + integrate with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol + (LDAP) service.
+The project is at early testing stage. A patch will be released as part of a broader call for testing after additional review on some critical components (in particular, the autofs filesystem). After fixing reported problems, the - code will be committed to FreeBSD 11-CURRENT. It's expected - to ship in the FreeBSD 10.2 release.
+ code will be committed to &os; 11-CURRENT. It is expected + to ship in the &os; 10.2 release.