Re: Rewriting kernfs and procfs - GSoC'12

2012-04-04 Thread ambarisha b
Hi, I have some progress. I submitted my proposal on google melange. There are some points on which I would like some feedback: - How is my schedule? Would it be better to increase/decrease the allotted time somewhere? I have reserved a buffer in the end incase there is some problem somewhere. -

Re: Rewriting kernfs and procfs - GSoC'12

2012-03-20 Thread Adam Hamsik
Hi, On Mar,Sunday 18 2012, at 2:24 AM, ambarisha b wrote: Hi, On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Elad Efrat e...@netbsd.org wrote: On 2012-03-07 6:12 PM, ambarisha b wrote: I also found two other projects not on GSoC page really interesting. Rewriting kernfs and procfs. Can it be worked on

Re: Rewriting kernfs and procfs - GSoC'12

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Mondor
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:35:13 +0900 Julio Merino j...@julipedia.org wrote: Personally, I'd also like to see this project done. It was at one point an idea I wanted to work on, but then lost the time to do so and forgotten about it completely. I was initially reticent to reply to this thread

Re: Rewriting kernfs and procfs - GSoC'12

2012-03-20 Thread Wolfgang Solfrank
Hi, I was initially reticent to reply to this thread at this time, because some details might be out of the scope of the GSoC project. But I think that those questions are important to consider in the design of a new procfs implementation, and the project description was very summary, so I

Re: Rewriting kernfs and procfs - GSoC'12

2012-03-20 Thread David Laight
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:45:29PM +0100, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote: While I once tried that (quite long ago), it turned out that the buffering the NFS client does somewhat conflicts the dynamic nature of /proc and /kern. However, maybe it could work better with NFSv3 or even NFSv4? At