Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:51:11 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Sanket Somnath Hase <sanket@cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, duppugan@andrew.cmu.edu, chandramouli@cmu.edu Subject: Re: interested in working on freeBSD Message-ID: <20070926195111.GN37370@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <4639.128.2.140.106.1190576938.squirrel@128.2.140.106> References: <4639.128.2.140.106.1190576938.squirrel@128.2.140.106>
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* Sanket Somnath Hase <sanket@cmu.edu> [070924 01:29] wrote: > Hi Matt , > > We are graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. We are enrolled in > a course (Operating systems practicum http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/ ) which > involves hands-on experience with operating-system code as it is developed > and deployed in the real world. Murray Stokley referred us to you. > > We were thinking of contibuting to FreeBSD.We read through the description of your project "Rewrite the in-kernel file system syncer" and found it interesting.Could you let us know the status of this project? It will be great if you could mention some related readings. > > We have already taken an operating system design and implementation class > (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/ ) before where we developed a UNIX like > kernel from scratch. We have fair experience in reading-coding-debugging > kernel code. All three of us interned at core systems group at companies > like Google and Oracle in the past summer. > > Our team can invest 30 hours per week, for a period of 12 weeks of this > Fall semester. We are wondering if we can contribute to FreeBSD. > It will be great if you could give us some pointers towards such work. Two projects come to mind: Fixing up the nfs lockd. Finishing the autofs filesystem. If this is interesting I can help you guys out.help
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