Summer of Code project idea

Summer of Code project idea

[Clemens Eisserer]

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

Re: Summer of Code project idea

[Chris Mason]

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

Re: Summer of Code project idea

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi Chris,

> I think there are a ton of good summer of code ideas for Btrfs, but t=
he
> windows driver option isn't quite at the top of my list. =C2=A0It isn=
't that
> I have something against windows, but there's a ton of work to be don=
e
> on the Linux side that I'd rather concentrate on first ;)

Hmm, somehow I expected this answer :/
I understand that organizations prefer projects working on their
internals, and the suggested project would only glue tons of code
together.
Well, maybe in 2012 ;)

Thanks, Clemens
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