From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 10:57:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D81E37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB7E43E4A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:57:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mux@freebsd.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1920) id 1EC92AE2FF; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:57:40 -0700 From: Maxime Henrion To: Paolo Pisati Cc: FreeBSD_Hackers Subject: Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =) Message-ID: <20020924175739.GA57622@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020924175642.GB87963@southcross.skynet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020924175642.GB87963@southcross.skynet.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paolo Pisati wrote: > Hi guys, > > as I said in the subject i'm a newbies of the kernel, but i used > FreeBSD for years, so when the time to write my final thesis > in my university arrived i immediately thought to help in some > way the FreeBSD group. > > Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me > which one is available and fell free to add any other project you > think could help the FreeBSD community in general. > > -the kernel memory allocator: if i remember correctly FreeBSD still > uses a power-of-two algorithm, what do you think about a > buddy-list algo, slab allocator or something new? We have an MP-safe slab allocator in -CURRENT since some time now. > -a fs with journaling: some times ago, i would like to develop > my own fs with journaling, but right now i could even drop the > dream of my own fs and JUST port the xfs/jfs for FreeBSD.. Alexander Kabaev is working on a XFS port, and Hiten Pandya on a JFS port. > -kgi: is it dead or what? No idea :-). > any ideas is welcome.... =) Cheers, Maxime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message