Re: How to start on new db-based FS?

Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Sat, 27 Jul 2002 00:15:15 +0400


Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:

>On Friday, 26 July 2002, at 11:07:42 -0500,
>Johnny Q. Hacker wrote:
>
>
>
>>I'm looking to start work in the next half-year to year on a filesystem
>> with LDAP and then maybe later someSQL backing. Where's a good place
>> to start? I'm going to have a look at NFS, because I think I might
>> be able to use its interface into the kernel (I'm planning on making
>> it a userspace daemon). Maybe autofs, although I think that's a
>> different interface.
>>
>>
>>
>Just a pointer to a project on filesystems that seems "revolutionary" in
>concepts and objectives: ReiserFS 4 (http://www.namesys.com).
>
>Please don't ask me about details, because I don't know a thing about
>filesystem design and such :-), but documentation at the above site can
>give you some ideas, and maybe a place to start contributing.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>
We would be happy to cooperate with persons interested in implementing
LDAP optimizing plugins for reiser4.

Probably you can get decent results compared to the competition even
without writing additional plugins.

-- 
Hans

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