Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:57:43 +0530 From: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: GSoC 15 - ZFS Boot Environment menu for GPT/EFI boot Message-ID: <CALJbWepUcQEDqXjH2vLYqmDSig7iOTYVQR7n%2Bz1NUa_RihKFgg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I am Prasad Joshi from India. I am planing to apply for GSoC 15, I found idea 'ZFS Boot Environment menu for GPT/EFI boot'. (https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#ZFS_Boot_Environment_menu_for_GPT.2FEFI_boot) Last year I participated in GSoC, wherein I worked on OSv to add Symlink support. Here is the link to my project https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/prasadjoshi/5741031244955648. During the project I worked on enabling ZFS symlink support. I added various related system calls like stat, lstat etc. I too had to modify name lookup (namei) to take care of symbolic links. It involved changing other system calls like open, rename, unlink (basically anything that touches file). However, my commits in OSv did not limit to symlink support - I also worked on adding eventfd, fixing zfs import/export/unmount functionality, and adding support for few smaller system or glibc calls. Here is the link for my commits which are accepted in OSv https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/commits?author=prasad-joshi I have also worked on KVM Tools project few years back, wherein I added QCOW1/2 support in KVM Tools. Here is link of KVM Tools announcement http://lwn.net/Articles/447556/ I have also contributed few patches in QEMU, Illumos, and Linux Kernel. In 2008-2010, I worked with company called KQInfotech, as a developer for porting ZFS to Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#KQ_InfoTech). Though I haven't worked on FreeBSD or PCBSD before, I am confident that, I would be able to get up to speed in very short period of time. At the moment, I am in process of understanding FreeBSD BE and preparing a formal proposal for GSoC 15. I wish to find a mentor for this project. I will look forward to reply. Thanks and Regards, Prasad
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