From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:08:57 -0700 Message-ID: <435EBB09.5030200@namesys.com> References: <200510251558.13860.pvh@uvic.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200510251558.13860.pvh@uvic.ca> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter van Hardenberg Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, ycoady@cs.uvic.ca, "Nordman, Ryan" , huaning@uvic.ca Peter van Hardenberg wrote: >Hello all, > >I'm a student at the University of Victoria. Between myself and a few fellow >students we have embarked on a quest to do some experiments with the Reiser4 >metadata system to show it off and provide some real world use cases. > >We'll be spending lots of time on this project between now and the end of the >year. If list members have ideas for interesting experiments, please, join in >and suggest them. > >So far, we have a few nifty ideas: > >1) tie the 'extract' utility to a shell script to copy existing metadata down >into the filesystem > > what is the extract utility? >2) create a (very slow) shell which operates on the filesystem by xpath query. > > can you say three paragraphs here? >doing it right would be difficult, but faking it should be easy. > >We are all inexperienced with kernel hacking and will probably ask some stupid >questions as we go forward. Our individual interests vary and we may find >that we have bitten off more than we can chew, but I expect it will be an >interesting ride, if nothing else. > > well, you are all more qualified than I was when I started work on reiserfs...... >Our first contribution will be a practical guide to installing Reiser4 (with >metadata enabled) under Ubuntu 5.10. > > Oh, that sounds great, it will go onto our website under the install button if you are kind enough to allow that. >All the best, >-pvh > > >