Hi Greg, Thanks for your reply.
Actually I am new to file system, I did work in memory management of Linux kernel. My concern is to understand file system, block architecture etc. I started reading, but wanted to do some implementation. Thanks Shyam On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freem...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Shyam Burkule <shyam.burk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Can you provide me with some project idea in file system that help to > > understand file system stack. > > > > Thanks > > Shyam > > If you don't care if it gets accepted by mainline, then backporting > the ext4 online defragger to ext3/ext2 seems to me like an interesting > project. Those are too mature I think to have a something as big a > online defragger accepted. You might get a distro or two to pick up a > patch like that add in during their packaging process. > > The ext4 patch is not yet in mainline, so you can see exactly what > changes are needed for it to work with ext4. > > http://markmail.org/message/iv4gisf7jis4epuk > > It also looks like most of Akira Fujita's kernel posts have primarily > related to this one patchset, so you can also sort of see how the > patchset evolved over the course of the last year. > > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=Akira+Fujita#query:Akira%20Fujita%20from%3A%22Akira%20Fujita%22+page:1+state:facets > > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer > Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist > http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer > First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - > http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf > > The Norcross Group > The Intersection of Evidence & Technology > http://www.norcrossgroup.com >
