Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:31:23 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [gsoc] HTree Directory Index and Journal in ext2fs Message-ID: <inf93r$5ih$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4D9B1DC2.1050205@gmail.com> References: <4D9B1DC2.1050205@gmail.com>
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On 05/04/2011 15:48, gnehzuil wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to apply a new project "HTree Directory Index and Journal > in ext2fs" in GSoC 2011. This project is not in ideas page. But this > project can improve ext2fs in FreeBSD. > > Last year, I have participated GSoC 2010 and have implemented a > preallocation algorithm in ext2fs and make it can read ext4 file system > in read-only mode. I have try to read htree dir index in ext4 read-only > mode. Yet I don't finish it. I am plan to implement a htree dir index in > ext2fs before midterm evaluation. > > Next I will try to implement journal in ext2fs. I think I can borrow > some ideas from WAPBL in NetBSD. When you say 'journal in ext2fs' do you mean ext3-compatible or something different entirely? I don't think that a journalling addition to our ext2fs which would not make it compatible with ext3 would be useful.
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