Hello, This is concerning the Google Summer of Code 2008, HURD projects: *Improved NFS implementation *Disk I/O performance tuning
I'd like to know more to make a stronger proposal which is due by the end of this week. To keep it short and , not take up time of a busy mailing list, I am a student of Georgia Institute of technology and I have done a project previously in the linux kernel which allowed the creation of user level filesystems and it was efficient in that the data was allocated contiguously, it was async i/o, prefetch caching was eliminated and the user could determine what blocks to cache. There was much flexibility given to the programmer of such a filesystem. Hence the disk i/o performance tuning project interests me in the fact that it requires some kind of optimization to an existing filesystem , hence would require some coding, benchmarking and further tweaking and pushing the benchmarks to their limits It would be great to know the goals of these 2 projects, and obtain some readings, code snippets . Thanks Nirmal Thacker
