From: sjg Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:26:31 +0000 (-0800) Subject: expand quota idea X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/c43da85ed2c8e083824e8b284765ebf7412e4ab0 expand quota idea --- diff --git a/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn b/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn index 6c77f7aa..9a313429 100644 --- a/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn +++ b/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn @@ -14,13 +14,14 @@ For more details on Google's Summer of Code: [Google's SoC page](http://socghop. #### Project ideas ##### VFS Quota System -1. Kernel and quota support in the VFS layer -1. Filesystem-agnostic quota support tools for userland +* Create a new kernel subsystem to manage quota's in a filesystem agnostic manner by interfacing with the kernel VFS layer. +* Create filesystem-agnostic quota support tools for userland that obtain information in the same manner as eg: du(1) instead of parsing the filesystem internals directly as the existing quota tools do (see quotacheck(8), repquota(8), edquota(8), ...). +* The quota file storage can be modeled after the existing UFS code that does the same, but should use the more general bytes, files and/or directories metrics instead of the somewhat UFS-specific blocks and inodes. Meta information: -* Difficulty: ? -* Contact point: ? +* Difficulty: Moderate +* Contact point: Samuel J. Greear ---