From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Summer of Code project idea
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:49:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299516505-sup-7611@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiktF7Xznrcc_9o2PSjoDHddxV7Q+ofx-A1ix0Zg@mail.gmail.com>
Excerpts from Clemens Eisserer's message of 2011-03-07 11:38:15 -0500:
> Hi,
>
> Will btrfs/oracle mentor students for this year's "Google Summer of Code 2011"?
>
> I would like to work on a Windows-IFS driver which uses coLinux as a
> "backend" - and therefor support all Filesystems the Linux kernel has
> drivers for.
>
> Although not as cool as a native btrfs driver for windows, in the long
> term this could be even more profitable for btrfs - without any
> porting effort the latest btrfs-features could be used by the
> Windows-driver too, without time consuming code-sync.
>
> If you find the project-idea cool and/or would like to mentor me,
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks, Clemens Eisserer
I think there are a ton of good summer of code ideas for Btrfs, but the
windows driver option isn't quite at the top of my list. It isn't that
I have something against windows, but there's a ton of work to be done
on the Linux side that I'd rather concentrate on first ;)
-chris
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2011-03-07 16:38 Summer of Code project idea Clemens Eisserer
2011-03-07 16:49 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2011-03-07 17:01 ` Clemens Eisserer
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