From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 07:34:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6471065670; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 07:34:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1688FC15; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 07:34:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id KAA08402; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:34:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1SFhDB-0000KW-Mm; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:34:29 +0300 Message-ID: <4F7D4B03.50900@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:34:27 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120317 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yongcong Du References: <4F7D3694.7020704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F7D3694.7020704@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Pedro Giffuni , netchild@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [gsoc2012] Port NetBSD's UDF implementation X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:34:34 -0000 on 05/04/2012 09:07 Pedro Giffuni said the following: > Hi YongCon; > > The project would be very interesting for us. I am pretty sure you will > not have problems finding a mentor. > > That said, let me point out an old thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042565.html > > I think the biggest problem is that you will have to get acquainted > with FreeBSD's Virtual Memory which is different from NetBSD's. > In that same thread you will find some comments by Matt Dillon > (no idea how up to date those are). > > It will not be an easy task but people find such challenges very > rewarding. Yongcong, please note that we have already got proposals from two other students for this project. I haven't expected this project to get so popular after sitting unnoticed for a few years. To increase your chances of getting accepted, it might be a good idea to consider another project. -- Andriy Gapon