I need suggestions for a practical work related with Kernel Development

[amit mehta]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Facundo Viale
<facundo.m.viale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I'm new here and i what to introduce myself i'm teacher in a University
> in the course Operation Systems. During the course the students learn some
> Operatyng Systems concepts, specially everything relating to the Kernel. As
> a practice task, they also have to use C to make a program with some Kernel
> functionalities. This year this task consists on programming a File System
> (I chose FAT32 since I thought it was the easiest one to implement) using
> FUSE and simulating a Hard Disk and a RAID behavior.
> Since I'm not a Kernel expert I'm looking for some advice and ideas. The aim
> of the practice task I'm creating is to help the students make a program
> that simulates the behavior and functionalities of a Kernel (such as a File
> System, Memory Administrator, Planner, etc.), but at the same I would like
> those programs to really interact with the Kernel, being not only ideal
> simulation cases (like FUSE). But, as I said, I don't know that much to have
> a good idea of what can I use to make the most from the Kernel in the task.
> I could really use some ideas!
> Some of the things I have in mind:
> - Use netlinks
> - Build a kernel module
> - I'm also interested in the /dev/mem
> ¡Thanks a lot in advance!

University of Massachusetts have a very well tailored OS coursework and is
available online with plenty of details and exercises. Here's the link:

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2010/

-Amit