Thanks David and that's true: there will be a large overlap with dedup work from Liu Bo. In fact, a few days after I sent the first mail, I got in touch with Liu and he agreed upon mentoring. So, I am all set now and will start working on the project in May end.. Best, Harshad. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:47 AM, David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:58:42AM -0400, harshad shirwadkar wrote: >> I am a CS graduate student from Carnegie Mellon University. I am >> hoping to build the feature - "Content based storage mode" under >> Google Summer of Code 2015. This project has also been listed as an >> idea on BTRFS ideas page. However, I have not found a mentor yet, and >> without a mentor I can not participate in the program. Please let me >> know if anybody is interested in mentoring this project. Here is a >> link to my proposal: >> >> http://harshadjs.github.io/2015/03/27/Fedora-BTRFS-Content-Storage-Mode/ > > This probably has a significant overlap with the in-band dedup work from > Liu bo [1]. Your proposal expects an interface to look up the data by > hash which hasn't been implemented afaik. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/34097 (v10) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
