Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

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On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of project ideas at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas and am especially interested in working on one of the following topics:
> 
> 1. (Enhanced) hot spare support as described in https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Hot_spare_support and https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#.22Enhanced.22_.28ala_RAID.29_support
> 
> 2. Adding more checksumming algorithms ( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#More_checksumming_algorithms )
> 
> 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding taking recursive snapshots ( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Take_recursive_snapshots ) and taking snapshots of arbitrary directories ( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Snapshot_arbitrary_directories )

Another option that I would personally love to see would be support for
write-mostly devices (that is, devices in a RAID1/RAID10 setup that only
get written too unless the data can't be found elsewhere).  This would
in particular provide an alternative to using bcache/dm-cache (namely an
SSD and HDD in RAID1 with the HDD set to write-mostly).
Based on the current development focus, I don't think anybody is working
on this already (I would be, but I don't have either the time or the
skills with kernel programming that would be needed).


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