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Re: GSoC Proposal - Defragmentation for FFS



On 20.01.2020 04:53, Chen,Xizi wrote:
> Hi NetBSD Community,
> 

Welcome@

> I am currently a first year Master's Degree student studying Computer
> Science at Northwest Missouri State University. I'm a professional C/C++
> developer with about 4 years of work experience as a storage systems
> engineer. My work mostly revolved around storage stack and I/O path in
> general.
> 
> One of the issues that hits very close to home for me is file system
> aging. I'm interested in learning in detail how to tackle fragmentation.
> I believe "Defragmentation for FFS" project provides me an excellent
> opportunity to learn more.
> 
> I have experience using and writing software in Linux, including
> experience in writing and debugging kernel modules. I am interested in
> learning more about the project "Defragmentation for FFS" albeit my work
> mostly involved working with XFS, I am more than willing to learn and
> contribute to it.
> 
> Looking forward to learning more about the project and working with
> NetBSD community.
> 
> Cheers,
> /Xizi Chen,/
> /NWMSU/

Please elaborate your involvement in XFS.

There is an ongoing (but not formally GSoC) project by Maciej to port
XFS testsuite for the NetBSD filesystems. We probably could use some
help here.

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