"Samuel J. Greear" <[email protected]> writes: > On Mar 28, 2011 10:02 AM, "Alex Hornung" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 28/03/11 16:48, Naohiro Aota wrote: >> > about implementing a new unionfs: >> > >> >> The current unionfs is completely broken as it relies on the whiteout >> >> VFS technique which is not supported by HAMMER. >> > >> > - Then main work would be to implement whiteout feature on HAMMER? >> > - or rewrite unionfs code not to depend on whiteout technique? >> >> I've now changed the text on the projects page to reflect that we don't >> want a new unionfs using whiteout. So the aim of this project is to >> develop a unionfs from scratch avoiding techniques which require messing >> with other filesystems. >> >> > and also: >> > >> > - Are there some docs (or some source code file) to help me understand >> > DragonFly VFS and HAMMER internal? >> > - Are there some detailed guides about these ideas? >> >> About the VFS you can refer to the book "Design & Implementation of >> FreeBSD". Things have changed, but it gives a good general perspective >> of how things work. The namecache, most interesting part for unionfs, >> has no real documentation, only inline with the code. >> >> Regards, >> Alex Hornung > > A great bullet point for any project would be "fully document related and > undocumented feature x with a new manpage."
Yeah, it should be. GSoC has "writing documents" phase, so I'll do the work for it. (last year, I wrote Gentoo/DragonFly installation guide http://elisp.net/gentoo-dragonfly/ ) Regards, Naohiro
