Samba project aspirant for GSOC 2014

[Saket Sinha]

Hi Steve,

          First of all, congratulations to entire Samba team for
their selection in GSOC 2014.

Let me quickly grap the opportunity to introduce myself. I am a GSoC
2013 participant . I had completed my project Hepunion filesystem with
CERN last summer. You can find more details about me and my project
here

https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/disdi/5785905063264256

Hepunion filesystem  is a stackable filesystem I am developing for
CERN( the European Organization for Nuclear Research). CERN needs a
Union filesystem for LHCb(Large Hadron Collider Beauty) to provide
fast diskless booting for LHCb's nodes. For such an implementation,
they need a file system with two branches a Read-Write and a Read Only
so they decided to write a completely new union file system called
Hepunion.

This year I am again interested in applying for GSOC for some linux
kernel filesystem related work. I wnet through the Samba GSOC ideas
and the following two projects interested me-

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

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

Kindly let me know which of these is most viable and how to get
started with these projects for this GSOC programme.

Regards,
Saket Sinha