Generic File System Mounting Protocol
About (top)
File systems have their own "proprietary" mount protocol and need to be treated differently : each addition of a file system implies adding specific code on every program which want to use it. The aim of this project is to replace them by a generic protocol, which could be used for every file system.
Doing so, it could be possible for instance to mount a device without having to specify the file system.
This project is developed by Arnaud Ysmal and mentored by Antti Kantee.
Schedule (top)
Project schedule
- May 23th - July 6th
- Survey of mounting argument structures
- Etablishment of a unified protocol
- Development of the new vfs operation
- July 7th - August 17th
- Conversion of in-tree file systems
- Development of mount_generic command
Summer of code schedule
- April 20, 2009: Community Bonding Period -- Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
- May 23, 2009: Students begin coding for their GSoC projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments
- June 21, 2009: First report on blog.NetBSD.org.
- July 6, 2009: Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations.
- July 13, 2009: Mid-term evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing mid-term student payments provided passing student survey is on file.
- August 10, 2009: Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc.
- August 17, 2009: Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google.
- August 24, 2009: Final evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing student and mentoring organization payments provided forms and evaluations are on file.
- September 21, 2009: Result posted on blog.NetBSD.org
Delivrables (top)
Mandatory (must-have) components:
- mount_generic command
- patches for in-tree file systems
- patch to add a new vfs operation
The patch containing the components listed above is available here.
Optional (would-be-nice) components:
- up to date manpages