On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Robert Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > We are certainly not uninterested in projects along these lines, but I think > the trick will be creating a convincing proposal that argues that (a) you > can do the work in a summer, (b) there's a compelling usage case for > including the results in FreeBSD, and (c) find a mentor who can supervise > you in this project.
Thanks, I will keep it on mind when writing the proposal. How do you suggest to proceed for finding a mentor? By the way, this is a project that I'm very probably going to carry on even without GSoC support (even though that would be very useful). > What sort of semantic file system do you have in mind? > How would you feel about a middle-ground project along the lines of Mac OS > X Spotlight or similar efficient userspace indexing of a file system based > on feedback from the file system about what has changed, or something > BeOS-like, in which indexing takes place for extended attributes rather than > for contents? In this moment I am considering also an userspace approach similar to Spotlight/Beagles, but I don't know how I could propose this as a FreeBSD GSoC project. What I have in mind at the moment would be an indexing based on contents rather than extended fs attributes. I did not know about the BeOS semantics capabilities, I will surely have a look at that. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
