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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 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 conjuction 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.
+
+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.
+
+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: Make a go at one of the known issues in the NFS client. You might not
+be able to finish this in the limited amount of time, but you should at least
+be able to make a detailed analysis of the issue.