GSoC project idea: HFS Plus journal

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sun Mar 20 14:47:41 EDT 2011


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:07:40AM +0900, Naohiro Aota wrote:
> Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:57:27PM +0900, Naohiro Aota wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I see some of you are talking about GSoC participation. I'm also
> >> thinking of it.
> >> 
> >> I have MacBookPro booting both MacOSX and Linux. Now Linux can write the
> >> filesystem safely only when HFS Plus journal is off. My life would be
> >> more better if Linux have complete HFS Plus filesystem read/write
> >> support.
> >> 
> >> So I'm thinking of implementing HFS Plus Journal support on Linux. I've
> >> searched and found a technote about HFS Plus format describe its Journal
> >> [1].
> >> 
> >> How do you think about it?
> >
> > Looks like a nice self-contained, project proposal, good luck!
> 
> Thanks. I need someone to mentor me :) How can I find him/her? Maybe I
> should post developing mailing list. But I don't find HFS+ developing
> list :(

You need to propose projects for GSoC, the mentor matching comes
afterward.  Please go read the procedures for how the program works.

best of luck,

greg k-h



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