Quoting Andrew Deason <adea...@sinenomine.net>:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:29:15 +0530
ambarisha b <b.ambari...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, I can understand.I hadn't considered the issue of
standardisation.May be it is best that we wait a bit more , like you
say.
There is still quite a bit of progress that can be made before
standardization, though, as Simon has noted. Pretty much all network
communication in AFS goes over a protocol called RX, and you could add
IPv6 support to the RX library without needing to standardize
wire-protocol changes.
Maybe some documentation in the code where the changes need to occur
would be useful? If it is, then it would also be useful to have a
standardized status attached to the comment so you can search for it,
ie // ipv6 support needed, //ipv6 support done.
I'd think the first point where you see actual useful functionality in
AFS is when you can communicate with an AFS database server over IPv6.
It is possible to get to that point without any standardization changes
(if you use SRV records to locate the dbservers), though I don't really
have an idea on whether that is reasonably achievable over a summer.
I don't either but I think that is the next place I would start also.
With a single client and single server platform and probably on the
same machine or a couple of vms on the same machine.
Presently,I am going through the documentation and the bug tracker,
hoping to make some contribution.Do you guys suggest any particular
project , you want done, for the summer ?
A project that has been mentioned before that I would very much like to
see is a userspace NFS/AFS translator. I don't have a pointer to more
details on the project on-hand, but it was basically taking some NFS
server framework, and plugging it in to libuafs (a library for talking
to AFS).
This would be handy.
64-bit native server binaries?
I assume most of this is going through the code and checking types and
code clean up, fixing alignment errors, etc. And -probably- one of the
better places to do this is and I know I will get killed for saying
this is sparc/solaris, linux/ppc or arm, (IBM power arch?) since they
don't have hardware support for alignment errors. :) Suns compiler
can be overly stinky about these on sparc. I haven't used IBMs but I
am assuming it is similar on ppc. gcc not necessarily.
A test suite functions?
There are actually quite a few real jobs I have seen posted for this
for people with experience lately. Given the nature of this project it
would make sense to be able to give some support for testing it.
That said, I thought we were still unsure whether OpenAFS was doing GSoC
this year...?
Google supposedly expanded their GSoC money.
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