Re: X and other visions

[Ognyan Kulev]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> There was quite a lot of testing done by people in #hurd.  Some people
> use a >2GB partition as root partition, IIRC.

That's nice to hear :-)

> Can you tell us how people can help you?  Testing?  Bug reports?  etc...

Yes, the easiest is just to use it.  When there is a problem, I need to 
know how to reproduce it, or at least some clue (like backtracing) where 
can be the problem.

> > ext3fs is kind of experimental, still in alpha stage, and users won't
> > benefit from it soon.  For some reasons I'm totally forced to finish
> > ext3fs (even in buggy state) as quickly as possible.  This is my
> > diplom thesis, and if things continue to go at this rate, I'll have to
> > change it :-(
>
> What are the main problems?

My main problem is distraction with various other things not related to 
the diplom thesis.  Second, this is quiet unusual project for me.  I 
usually handle data structures and algorithms well, but here there is a 
lot of concurrency too, and I still haven't the complete picture of 
Linux jbd and ext3.  There are more details I can add, but this is enough.

> I don't really know how it works for diplom thesises, can we help a
> bit?

Probably later, with opinions about design, but not now.

Current code can be checked out from 
http://svn.openfmi.net/projects/ext3fs/trunk .  It's not compilable. 
The only interesting stuff for now is libscache (store cache), which 
should be usable.

Regards,
ogi