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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index d4980279..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2012 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Improved NFS Implementation"]] - -The Hurd has both NFS server and client implementations, which work, but not -very well: File locking doesn't work properly (at least in conjunction with a -GNU/Linux server), and performance is extremely poor. Part of the problems -could be owed to the fact that only NFSv2 is supported so far. - -(Note though that locking on the Hurd is problematic in general, not only in -conjunction with NFS -- see the [[file_locking]] task.) - -This project encompasses implementing NFSv3 support, fixing bugs and -performance problems -- the goal is to have good NFS support. The work done in -a previous unfinished GSoC project can serve as a starting point. - -Both client and server parts need work, though the client is probably much more -important for now, and shall be the major focus of this project. - -Some [discussion of NFS -improvements](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2008-04/msg00035.html) -has been done for a former GSoC application -- it might give you some pointers. -But don't take any of the statements made there for granted -- check the facts -yourself! - -A bigger subtask is the [[libnetfs: `io_map`|open_issues/libnetfs_io_map]] -issue. - -This task, [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5497]], has no special prerequisites besides general programming skills, and -an interest in file systems and network protocols. - -Possible mentors: ? - -Exercise: Look into one of the existing issues in the NFS code. It's quite -possible that you will not be able to fix any of the visible problems before -the end of the application process; but you might discover something else you -could improve in the code while working on it :-) - -If you can't find anything suitable, talk to us about possible other exercise -tasks. |