GSOC Replies

[Joel Sherrill]

Wei Shen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 3/25/08, *x ray* <rayx.cn at gmail.com <mailto:rayx.cn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I agreed with Joel because (1)not try to introduce big change at one
>     time (2) each milestone is reachable (3)when each milestone achieved,
>     user's application will not break.
>
>     The drawback is, there might be some duplicate job.
>
>     Wei, what is your opinion ?
>
>  
> I totally agree. As I already noted, I will not add VFS implementation 
> to the GSoC proposal, but I would like to add "a survey of VFS 
> implementation based on IMFS" as a task.
>
That sounds safe.  You could have a design and direction.  Maybe you get 
to it
and maybe you don't.  You have tasks ahead of it. :)

--joel
> On 3/25/08, *Wei Shen* <cquark at gmail.com <mailto:cquark at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>      
>     If people of RTEMS trust me, I would like to make it a long term
>     plan, but at current stage, I feel I am not experienced enough to
>     undertake that.
>      
>     Redesign FS infrastructure for an OS is really a serious task,
>     though in RTEMS, IMFS and jnode provide a good start point - they
>     in fact accomplish lots of work the VFS layer does. Maybe,
>     after sufficient work on FIFO, file descriptor, and aio, I will be
>     more comfident of trying.
>
>  
> Regrards,
> Wei Shen


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