Hi everyone, I'd like to work on a Google Summer of Code project for NetBSD this year. After learning that NetBSD includes Lua in the base system, I thought that writing Lua bindings for more of NetBSD's features would be a good project, and that puffs would be a good place to start. This would let developers write prototype filesystem implementations in a high level language, which might help with other projects like implementing ext4 or xfs.
To demonstrate the viability of the project and produce a practical deliverable, I also plan to implement SquashFS using these bindings. Because there already exists a FUSE implementation of SquashFS in C, the Lua implementation could be compared with both the FUSE implementation and the Linux kernel implementation. Since this isn't a project listed on the wiki, I wasn't sure who I should get in touch with. Would I be right to assume that tech-userlevel is the right place for discussing this? I have a draft project proposal available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yiEcoVtkyn7iKgOFThtifMmIXEKfGbMbOxDmGVptWdo/edit?usp=sharing Thank you for your time. ~ James Cave
