Try writing memory based file system. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Shyam Burkule <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Greg, Thanks for your reply. > > > Actually I am new to file system, I did work in memory management of Linux > kernel. My concern is to understand file system, block architecture etc. I > started reading, but wanted to do some implementation. > > > Thanks > Shyam > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Greg Freemyer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Shyam Burkule <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello All, >> > >> > Can you provide me with some project idea in file system that help to >> > understand file system stack. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Shyam >> >> If you don't care if it gets accepted by mainline, then backporting >> the ext4 online defragger to ext3/ext2 seems to me like an interesting >> project. Those are too mature I think to have a something as big a >> online defragger accepted. You might get a distro or two to pick up a >> patch like that add in during their packaging process. >> >> The ext4 patch is not yet in mainline, so you can see exactly what >> changes are needed for it to work with ext4. >> >> http://markmail.org/message/iv4gisf7jis4epuk >> >> It also looks like most of Akira Fujita's kernel posts have primarily >> related to this one patchset, so you can also sort of see how the >> patchset evolved over the course of the last year. >> >> >> http://markmail.org/search/?q=Akira+Fujita#query:Akira%20Fujita%20from%3A%22Akira%20Fujita%22+page:1+state:facets >> >> Greg >> -- >> Greg Freemyer >> Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer >> First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - >> http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf >> >> The Norcross Group >> The Intersection of Evidence & Technology >> http://www.norcrossgroup.com >> > >
