On 7/27/14 10:10 PM, Sanchit Gupta wrote:
Hi, I am Sanchit Gupta, an Undergraduate at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I am currently an intern at Vmware (Kernel Team). My mentor is Matthew Green, one of the members of NetBSD core group. I am really interested in operating systems and wanted to work on some of the projects under NetBSD to gain some experience, and also to get to know other developers out there who are also into systems programming. I know that I am a beginner at this, but it would be great if I could learn under the guidance of some of your developers. I wanted to get involved with development on NetBSD by working on Kernfs and Procfs. I would be grateful if you could get me hooked up with the team that is currently working on this issue.
This (tech-kern) is the mailing list where you want to pose your questions. People generally respond very well to specific technical questions. (sometimes less well to open-ended nontechnical questions, which is why nobody has responded for a week, at least not on-list)
As far as I know, nobody is working on kernfs or procfs, so if you have ideas, please share them!
Also, I wanted to know whether the ZFS porting was completed or not as I am also interested in working on that project.
ZFS is definitely in need of work. It builds, but is an older version and has many lurking bugs. Taylor Campbell (riastradh@) did some work on it back in 2012 which improved things (see http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2012/10/15/msg037932.html ), but much remains to be done.
Thanks, Sanchit
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