<div dir="ltr">Hi Tran Ly Vu,<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-size:12.8px">How exactly do i start to contribute to linux community, i.e fix bug, etc</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Below are my suggestions:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">(1) Select a module which you are interested;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">(2) Dive into the source code; subscribe the related mailing list and concentrate on the news& updates of this module;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">(3) After you are familiar with this module, you can take part in it: add feature, fix bug, etc.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best Regards<div>Nan Xiao</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Tran Ly Vu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vutransingapore@gmail.com" target="_blank">vutransingapore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">HI,<br>
<br>
I have signed up for the eudyptula challenge to start off.<br>
<br>
How exactly do i start to contribute to linux community, i.e fix bug, etc<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
<br>
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> On 11.04.2017 02:10, juan pedro meri?o wrote:<br>
>> Hi!<br>
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>> I have been looking at versions 1,2,3 and 4 of the linux kernel. I would<br>
>> like to know what are the programs for the kernel development environment.<br>
>> To test them and add new features.<br>
>><br>
>> Thank you very much!<br>
> Please take a look at this site:<br>
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> From: nick <<a href="mailto:xerofoify@gmail.com">xerofoify@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Btrfs Questions for Personal Data Archive<br>
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> Greetings All,<br>
> I am assuming this is coming from me it's just going to get no reply. However if someone<br>
> who works on btrfs is willing to reply to this I have a few questions. Firstly I have a<br>
> lot of personal storage for archiving various things probably around ~37TB filled currently<br>
> in external drives and estimate the archive to grow to around ~300 to 400 TB. All of<br>
> these numbers are unformatted for people's information. I have been using btrfs but<br>
> need to ask a few questions for how to create a central archive best:<br>
><br>
> 1.Does the compression algorithms used as according to my knowledge they don't do<br>
> it well enough to enable it for non text files? What are the performance disadvantages<br>
> from a IO perspective(I can Google this but I want numbers from someone who works<br>
> in a data center)? This is primary due to the central archive needing to be used<br>
> for many different systems at a time. I assume around 3-4 on average maybe more<br>
> including during a rebuild. Some of it is also hit bit rate encodes I have done<br>
> for bluray which are around 10-22mbps per second and may need to be watched during<br>
> a raid rebuild. GPU processing will be client side so don't worry about that.<br>
><br>
> 2. Same as above but for software raid versus hardware raid in btrfs.I am stressing<br>
> rebuild time here on a raid 5/6. Probably going to use raid 60 as that gives me<br>
> a mirror plus two drives failure for redundancy.<br>
><br>
> 3. I have found very little information on this but does the metadata being on a SSD<br>
> actually help with performance? Very little information exist off the wiki for this.<br>
> I literally goggled for a few hours and found very little even in terms of papers.<br>
><br>
> Further more the archive is going to be on external hard drives for a while, as hard<br>
> drives are not big enough. If people want more information or have advice on how<br>
> to scale this out that would be very helpful. Generally I am looking for information<br>
> related to btrfs.<br>
><br>
> If anyone replies huge thanks,<br>
> Nick<br>
> P.S. If anyone tells me to send my questions to the btrfs list I did some stupid things and<br>
> was banned from vger so I am just sending it here for now.<br>
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