From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:57:53 +0100
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On Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:07, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > - Are large enough to qualify as a student project, luckily there is
> >   flexibility here since we get inquiries for anything from 6 week
> >   projects to 6 month projects.
> > 
> > If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them
> > to this page (or email me):
> 
> Hard stuff:
> 
> * network character device -- similar to nbd, but for char devices.
>   either figure out how to forward ioctls(), or implement
>   usb-over-network, or...
> 
> * openMosix -- they seem to have userspace solution, but not GPLed.

The project is no longer being developed, AFAICS.

> * compression for ext4. Its about time someone did it right. Special
>   bonus if you can do it in a way that it does not slow down. If cpu
>   is free, compress, if it is busy, just write it straight to disk.
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