Re: How to start on new db-based FS?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:

>On Friday, 26 July 2002, at 11:07:42 -0500,
>Johnny Q. Hacker wrote:
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>>I'm looking to start work in the next half-year to year on a filesystem
>>  with LDAP and then maybe later someSQL backing.  Where's a good place
>>  to start?  I'm going to have a look at NFS, because I think I might
>>  be able to use its interface into the kernel (I'm planning on making
>>  it a userspace daemon).  Maybe autofs, although I think that's a
>>  different interface.
>>
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>Just a pointer to a project on filesystems that seems "revolutionary" in
>concepts and objectives: ReiserFS 4 (http://www.namesys.com).
>
>Please don't ask me about details, because I don't know a thing about
>filesystem design and such :-), but documentation at the above site can 
>give you some ideas, and maybe a place to start contributing.
>
>Regards, 
>
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>
We would be happy to cooperate with persons interested in implementing 
LDAP optimizing plugins for reiser4.

Probably you can get decent results compared to the competition even 
without writing additional plugins.

-- 
Hans