Re: Interested in ext3fs for GSoC

["Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 9:51 PM
> From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%astron.com@localhost>
> To: tech-kern%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: Interested in ext3fs for GSoC
>
> In article <CADoeuZ_F_fC-_K2Fr-nhn+JBovvNKJyKeDqDvbNBVSUb0bHeDA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
> Miles Fertel  <milesfertel%college.harvard.edu@localhost> wrote:
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm a computer science undergraduate at Harvard studying Operating Systems
> >and I'm interested in implementing ext3 for a Google Summer of Code
> >project.
> >
> >First off, the project page states that several years of ext3 GSoC projects
> >have failed. I'm interested in finding out why, and figuring out what I can
> >do to avoid their fate. The only documentation I could find was from the
> >2008 GSoC student that just vanished.
> >
> >Where can I find specific information about previous attempts at ext3fs in
> >NetBSD?
> >
> >I'm currently reading through the documentation in
> >http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/ext3/ but it is likely a bit out
> >of date.
> 
> That page is very much out of date. There was a successful ext{2,3,4} project
> last GSoC (2016) by Hrishikesh Goyal. Here's the very nice writeup about it:
> 
> http://hrishikeshgoyal.blogspot.com/
> 
> See at the bottom in "Future work to be done" for a possible project for
> this year.
> 
> Best,
> 
> christos
> 
> 


There was also some work done by Jaromir Dolecek:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2016/07/31/msg020946.html