[linux-cifs-client] [GSoC 2010][RESEND] Questions on Improved async/vector i/o support, fscache integration, and VFS change notification

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Mon Apr 26 04:45:55 MDT 2010


On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:18:33 +0200
Stef Bon <stefbon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've followed the discussion here with great interest.
> 
> For me, as developer of a construction to get easy access to all kind
> of resources (not only smb but other netwerk services like ftp and ssh
> as well, and of course local like usb) these items are very nice. This
> constrcution is based upon
> a fuse module and the automounter to do all the mounting. See:
> 
> http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/mount.md5key.new/
> 
> Especially the inotify feature. I'm working on making this work on
> FUSE, which is not that easy (at least for me).
> Inotify is not supported yet in FUSE, so filesystems based on FUSE do
> not have a way to notify changes in the backend to the system.
> But in general I think it's a good thing to investigate the possible
> integration with fs-cache.
> 
> But that's FUSE, where can I follow the progress on the topics mentioned here?
> I see something about GSoC 2010. Is there a project page??
> 

There's this page:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SoC/Ideas

...is that what you were looking for?

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>


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