Hi Chris,
Great to have such a long list of suggestions!
Though I think the information is a bit on the short side, hard for
mentor/mentee to pick up.
Suggestion to create a short description like that here,
http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas
Title: 1liner
o Benefits: 1 liners
o Requirements: 1/2 lines
o Note: a short description of specific thing to need to know.
Slab that on a wiki page, and if any of the ZFS engineers like to mentor
can simply put their name down on the page.
What do you think?
A similar variant for #9 is being proposed on the GNOME page as well.*
nautilus: time slider for btrfs*
-Ghee
C. Bergström wrote:
For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc
organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to
propose some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to
send your vote, let me know if you can mentor or if you know a company
that could use it.
Here's more or less what I've collected...
1) Excess ditto block removing + other green-bytes zfs+ features -
*open source* (very hard.. can't be done in two months)
2) raidz boot support (planning phase and suitable student already
found. could use more docs/info for proposal)
3) Additional zfs compression choices (good for archiving non-text
files?
4) zfs cli interface to add safety checks (save your butt from
deleting a pool worth more than your job)
5) Web or gui based admin interface
6) zfs defrag (was mentioned by someone working around petabytes of
data..)
7) vdev evacuation as an upgrade path (which may depend or take
advantage of zfs resize/shrink code)
8) zfs restore/repair tools (being worked on already?)
9) Timeslider ported to kde4.2 ( *cough* couldn't resist, but put
this on the list)
10) Did I miss something..
#2 Currently planning and collecting as much information for the
proposal as possible. Today all ufs + solaris grub2 issues were
resolved and will likely be committed to upstream soon. There is a
one liner fix in the solaris kernel also needed, but that can be
binary hacked worst case.
#5/9 This also may be possible for an outside project.. either web
showcase or tighter desktop integration..
The rest may just be too difficult in a two month period, not
something which can go upstream or not enough time to really plan well
enough.. Even if this isn't done for gsoc it may still be possible
for the community to pursue some of these..
To be a mentor will most likely require answering daily/weekly
technical questions, ideally being on irc and having patience. On top
of this I'll be available to help as much as technically possible,
keep the student motivated and the projects on schedule.
./Christopher
#ospkg irc.freenode.net - (Mostly OpenSolaris development rambling)
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