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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Summer of Code project idea
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:49:26 -0500
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To: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>
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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