From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49949 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754166AbbDMOrp (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:47:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:47:43 +0200 From: David Sterba To: harshad shirwadkar Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, bo.li.liu@oracle.com Subject: Re: [GSoC 2015] Btrfs content based storage Message-ID: <20150413144743.GL25622@twin.jikos.cz> Reply-To: dsterba@suse.cz References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:58:42AM -0400, harshad shirwadkar wrote: > I am a CS graduate student from Carnegie Mellon University. I am > hoping to build the feature - "Content based storage mode" under > Google Summer of Code 2015. This project has also been listed as an > idea on BTRFS ideas page. However, I have not found a mentor yet, and > without a mentor I can not participate in the program. Please let me > know if anybody is interested in mentoring this project. Here is a > link to my proposal: > > http://harshadjs.github.io/2015/03/27/Fedora-BTRFS-Content-Storage-Mode/ This probably has a significant overlap with the in-band dedup work from Liu bo [1]. Your proposal expects an interface to look up the data by hash which hasn't been implemented afaik. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/34097 (v10)