Re: [GSoC 2015] Btrfs content based storage

[harshad shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>]

Thanks David and that's true: there will be a large overlap with dedup
work from Liu Bo. In fact, a few days after I sent the first mail, I
got in touch with Liu and he agreed upon mentoring. So, I am all set
now and will start working on the project in May end..

Best,
Harshad.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:47 AM, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> wrote:
> 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)