On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Le Nguyen Tran <lntran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am Nguyen. I am not a software development engineer but an IC (chip) > development engineer. I have a plan to develop an IC controller for > Network Attached Storage (NAS). The main idea is converting software > code into hardware implementation. Because the chip is customized for > NAS, its performance is high, and its cost is lower than using micro > processor like Atom or Xeon (for servers). > > I plan to use btrfs as the file system specification for my NAS. The > main point is that I need to understand the btrfs sofware code in > order to covert them into hardware implementation. I am wandering if > any of you can help me. If we can make the chip in a good shape, we > can start up a company and have our own business.
I'm not sure if that's a good idea. AFAIK btrfs depends a lot on other linux subsystems (e.g. vfs, block, etc). Rather than converting/reimplementing everything, if your aim is lower cost, you might have easier time using something like a mediatek SOC (the ones used on smartphones) and run a custom-built linux with btrfs support on it. For documentation, https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page#Developer_documentation is probably the best place to start -- Fajar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
