Re: Interested in contributing

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:13:49 -0500, John Quigley <jquigley@jquigley.com> wrote:

>  I'm reading everything that's available at http://hail.wiki.kernel.org/,
> and would be interested in your feedback on where I might begin to help?

That's a tough question. Although, maybe it's not all 100% relevant.
For example, I set out a goal for myself to created a distributed S3
service using Hail facilities (registering with CLD and using Chunk
back-end). While on course to that, I think I contributed more patches
for CLD than for Tabled. You just need something to keep you interested.

> I see a standing request for a FUSE interface to CLD on the wiki;
> since I've written a number of FUSE-based file systems, would this
> be desirable?

I think so, yes. In the process, if you could create a library for
CLD that were friendly to multi-threaded applications, it would
be godly. The hail/tabled/server/cldu.c is just awful IMHO.
But of course, who cares about libraries. You need a more interesting
goal that coincidentially requires a better library.

> [1] In the form of the open source Cleversafe project, http://www.cleversafe.org/

Cleversafe reminds me about something: it would be great if someone
created some kind of background remote sync for tabled. The redundancy
I'm thinking about is limited to a data center. I don't want to keep
performance hostage to the outside links, but obviously a single
data center is vulnerable to disasters like fire. Note that I don't
have even such limited redundancy at present, so maybe it's early.

-- Pete