There has been some discussion (HADOOP-4952, HADOOP-3518) on how the HDFS file system can be exposed via the SPI in the new (new) NIO.2 specification, JSR 203.
I'd like to pitch the idea of doing that as a Google Summer of Code (now accepting applications) project. What do you think about this? Are there any developers that would want to mentor this effort? I am interested in doing this project (as a student) if the community thinks that it is a good idea. Some links: http://code.google.com/soc/, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3518, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4952, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=203 and a presentation of JSR203 on the tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNRS1ssLPdQ.
