From a4f982be9b21323038704069a56fb2448369d6a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Humble Devassy Chirammal Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:53:52 +0530 Subject: Porting developer guide to source code repo from glusterdocs project Change-Id: Ib8d9c668ebb05863918e6ec2b89908f206626f38 BUG: 1206539 Signed-off-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/12227 Tested-by: NetBSD Build System Reviewed-by: Prashanth Pai Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal Tested-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal Tested-by: Raghavendra Talur --- doc/developer-guide/Projects.md | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/developer-guide/Projects.md (limited to 'doc/developer-guide/Projects.md') diff --git a/doc/developer-guide/Projects.md b/doc/developer-guide/Projects.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5c41fef9daf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/developer-guide/Projects.md @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +This page contains a list of project ideas which will be suitable for +students (for GSOC, internship etc.) + +Projects with mentors +--------------------- + +### gfsck - A GlusterFS filesystem check + +- A tool to check filesystem integrity and repairing +- I'm currently working on it +- Owner: Xavier Hernandez (Datalab) + +### Sub-directory mount support for native GlusterFS mounts + +Allow clients to directly mount directories inside a GlusterFS volume, +like how NFS clients can mount directories inside an NFS export. + +Mentor: Kaushal + +### GlusterD services high availablity + +GlusterD should restart the processes it manages, bricks, nfs server, +self-heal daemon and quota daemon, whenever it detects they have died. + +Mentor : Atin Mukherjee + +### Language bindings for libgfapi + +- API/library for accessing gluster volumes + +### oVirt gui for stats + +Have pretty graphs and tables in ovirt for the GlusterFS top and profile +commands. + +### Monitoring integrations - munin others + +The more monitoring support we have for GlusterFS the better. + +### More compression algorithms for compression xlator + +The on-wire compression translator should be extended to support more +compression algorithms. Ideally it should be pluggable. + +### Cinder GlusterFS backup driver + +Write a driver for cinder, a part of openstack, to allow backup onto +GlusterFS volumes + +### rsockets - sockets for rdma transport + +Coding for RDMA using the familiar socket api should lead to a more +robust rdma transport + +### Data import tool + +Create a tool which will allow importing already existing data in the +brick directories into the gluster volume. This is most likely going to +be a special rebalance process. + +### Rebalance improvements + +Improve rebalance performance. + +### Meta translator + +The meta xlator provides a /proc like interface to GlusterFS xlators. +This could be improved upon and the meta xlator could be made a standard +part of the volume graph. + +### Geo-replication using rest-api + +Might be suitable for geo replication over WAN. + +### Quota using underlying FS' quota + +GlusterFS quota is currently maintained completely in GlusterFSs +namespace using xattrs. We could make use of the quota capabilities of +the underlying fs (XFS) for better performance. + +### Snapshot pluggability + +Snapshot should be able to make use of snapshot support provided by +btrfs for example. + +### Compression at rest + +Lessons learnt while implementing encryption at rest can be used with +the compression at rest. + +### File-level deduplication + +GlusterFS works on files. So why not have dedup at the level files as +well. + +### Composition xlator for small files + +Merge small files into a designated large file using our own custom +semantics. This can improve our small file performance. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit