Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:58:14 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Aram Havarneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared Disk/Transactional/Distributed file system (GSoC Proposal) Message-ID: <49D00B16.20507@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <be00cc30903291529v4862b53bs93414a86bad77430@mail.gmail.com> References: <be00cc30903291529v4862b53bs93414a86bad77430@mail.gmail.com>
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Aram Havarneanu wrote: > I have been giving some thought lately on some ideas I would like to > do for Google Summer of Code. I haven't posted my application yet, as > I hope to get some feedback first. An interesting idea, but it sounds much too ambitious for a six-week summer project. I suggest you try to come up with something rather a bit smaller. There are a couple of proposals on the FreeBSD Summer of Code site for small projects that deal with filesystem issues. Especially if you've not worked with the FreeBSD kernel before, it's probably advisable to first tackle a small project that would fix some issues with existing file system implementations so you can learn what a real FS implementation looks like. Once you know your way around the kernel and the filesystem interfaces, then there will be plenty of time to tackle designing your own file system from scratch. There's a suggestion on the FreeBSD Summer of Code page, if I recall correctly, to fix some issues with the msdosfs file system implementation, and I seem to recall some people asking recently about zisofs support for the iso9660 driver. Of course, a lot depends on your particular background. You didn't say how much work of this sort you'd done in the past. Cheers, Tim Kientzle
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