Re: NILFS development contribution

[Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:35:28 +0530, santhosh kumars wrote:
> Hi,
> I have gone through the documents of NILFS mentioned on the home page
> of NILFS. I have interest in file system development and have some
> background knowledge about the linux VFS layer and have also created a
> sample memory based file system which resides only in the memory. In
> one of the slides "Development of a New Logstructured File System for
> Linux", there is a mention to involve outside developers in the
> project as well. I too want to contribute in the development of nilfs
> so I wanted to know where can I start from to get involved in the
> project.can any one help me for  to get start please.
> 
> Thanks,
> karuanakar.

Sorry for my late reply. I was quite busy this week.


Contribution to our project is of course welcome.

NILFS is now a part of the Linux kernel, and is developed using public
git trees and the linux-nilfs mailing list.  I am taking in function
enhancement as well as bug fixes which outside developers sent to me,
simlilarly with usual Linux/OSS development.

My recommendation for starting to get involved in the project is to
utilize github; both userland utilities and nilfs branch of kernel
tree are maintained there.

This project has many todo items, which is listed in lower part of
http://www.nilfs.org/en/current_status.html

My recent concern is improving garbage collection algorithm and I/O
performance of in-kernel filesystem module.

What is necessary is just to do your favorite or possible thing,
however, if you can provide help to these priorities, I would
appreciate it :)


Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi
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