Paolo Pisati wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> as I said in the subject i'm a newbies of the kernel, but i used
> FreeBSD for years, so when the time to write my final thesis 
> in my university arrived i immediately thought to help in some
> way the FreeBSD group. 
> 
> Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me 
> which one is available and fell free to add any other project you 
> think could help the FreeBSD community in general.
> 
> -the kernel memory allocator: if i remember correctly FreeBSD still
> uses a power-of-two algorithm, what do you think about a 
> buddy-list algo, slab allocator or something new?

We have an MP-safe slab allocator in -CURRENT since some time now.

> -a fs with journaling: some times ago, i would like to develop
> my own fs with journaling, but right now i could even drop the
> dream of my own fs and JUST port the xfs/jfs for FreeBSD..

Alexander Kabaev is working on a XFS port, and Hiten Pandya on a JFS
port.

> -kgi: is it dead or what?

No idea :-).

> any ideas is welcome.... =)

Cheers,
Maxime

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