Hello everyone, I, Nitish Dutt Sharma, am a Computer Science masters student and highly interested in making contribution to OpenAFS project through GSoc 2010. I recently came across OpenAFS project, while researching for my Distributed Systems course. The project sounds very appealing to me. I have good experience in C, by the work I've done in GNU/Linux kernel development, and right now I am working with a group on Android kernel development. I also have, relatively less as compared to C, experience in C++, Java and python. *Userspace NFS -> AFS translator* project interested me the most and I believe I have the appropriate skill set required for this project. I am relatively new to OpenAFS, but have experience using NFS. I discussed the project on IRC channel and received very good pointers to approach it. I've started studying the AFS documentation and will try to come up with a rough proposal draft, very soon. Since, one of the critical part of this project involves authentication mappings, it would be great if someone could provide me with resource for OpenAFS authentication, or Is it exactly same as Kerberos (and I should rather study it)? Any other suggestions/advices/resources are also welcome. Also, please let me know who could possibly mentor this project.
Regards Nitish
