On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Mohammed Gamal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I am interested in the Userspace NFS->AFS translator project. I have > already submitted a proposal and receive some feedback from Jeffrey > Hutzelman, who has encouraged me to post it here to the list. > > The basic idea of the project is to have the translator to include an > NFS server and AFS client implementations and a translation service > that handles mapping the procedure calls from NFS clients to the AFS > client. For the NFS server we can use an existing implementation or > implement one from scratch, although I'd lean towards the first > solution, and I wonder what your thoughts would be on using something > like .uNFS for that purpose. In addition, the Solaris kernel > implementation can be used as a reference for the userspace > implementation. > > I envision that the project will be divided into two major phases, and > I proposed the following timeline: > > 1- Acceptance-Midterm evaluation period: > > This phase concentrates on the NFS server implementation side of the > translator. The deliverables of this phase should be a working NFS > server implementation as well as possibly a skeleton or prototype for > the AFS client. This phase can be subdivided as follows: > > - Community Bonding Period: Get involved with the community. > Familiarize myself with OpenAFS and libuafs usage and codebase. Read > documentation. Evaluate available user-level NFS implementations for > future usage. > > - May 26th - June 15th: Start developing or porting NFS server > implementation. Come up with initial design of the translator's client > side. > > - June 15th - June 30th: Exams break > > - July 1st - July 14th: Finish NFS server implementation. Have a > translator and AFS client side prototype ready. Test all the work > done. > > 2- Mid-term till Final evaluation: > > This phase includes further improvements for the NFS implementation > depending on community feedback. As well as completing the > implementation of the translation and the AFS client. > > - July 16th - Aug 9th: Implement the translation mappings between > NFS requests and AFS requests. Develop AFS client to deliver AFS > requests to AFS servers. > > - Aug 9th - End of program: Fix outstanding issues, write > integration tests, make sure all is good. > > Needless to say, community feedback will be crucial at driving the > pace and the goals at which the project proceeds, and therefore during > all the phases of this project I am willing to submit patches for > public review, hear feedback from the community and take it into > consideration. > > Best Regards, > Mohammed >
In case you're curious, the application's page is at http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_proposal/private/google/gsoc2010/mgamal/t126995145144 . Your comments will be appreciated. Regards, Mohammed _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
