Hi, I am a Masters student at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in Systems (with special emphasis on Operating Systems and Storage Systems). I have taken a class called Operating Systems Practicum (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/syllabus.html). The main objective of the course is to add a feature to any Open Source systems-y product (preferably an operating systems).
I was browsing through NetBSD project wiki and came across this really interesting project of Compressed Cache (http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/compressed-cache/). I would really appreciate if I could get some insights on this project status. I will mostly be working alone on this project and the timeframe I have is around 2 months. I did some basic reading and have figured out that one approach to implement this is to have a block device backed by kernel reserved memory. This block device can used as a staging area for the compressed pages. The interface can itself be provided through a VFS read/write semantics. I would really appreciate if I could get any pointers and help on this project. Eagerly awaiting a response. Thanks and Regards, Vinay
