Hi all,My name is Jake, and I was just accepted by OpenAFS as a Summer of Code student. Jeff suggested we students introduce ourselves to the development community, so that's what I'm doing :-) . I'm a freshman Computer Science major at the University of Minnesota - Morris.
My project entails implementing some of the OpenAFS functionality into the RedHat kAFS code. This will allow for people wanting to use OpenAFS to have code directly in the Linux kernel, as compared to needing to patch the kernel, and then needing the correct version of OpenAFS, etc.
My project is being mentored by David Howells, and contains the following goals:
* DNS AFSDB being able to obtain cell server location without using configuration files.
* A common pioctl implementation between kafs and OpenAFS.
* Making a standard keyring implementation that would allow the
client to obtain authentication tokens that would work for both kafs and
OpenAFS.
* Implement some of the OpenAFS file system commands that have
not yet been integrated into kafs.
* A way for OpenAFS and kafs to be running on the same machine
using different port numbers.
* Develop a better solution to the local caching feature that is
currently implemented in kafs .
* Complete the kafs callback interface.
I look forward to working with OpenAFS, and learning the ins and outs of
how OpenAFS works. Congratulations to all the other students who were
selected for Summer of Code as well!
-- Jacob Thebault-Spieker Cell: (207) 717-5114
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