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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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+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!
+
+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.