From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 14:45:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 14:45:06 -0400 Received: from ip122-15.asiaonline.net ([202.85.122.15]:63667 "EHLO uranus.planet.rcn.com.hk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 14:44:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3B9A66B8.D165155B@rcn.com.hk> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 02:43:04 +0800 From: David Chow Organization: Resources Computer Network Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: zh_TW, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Contribution of the linux kernel development Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear all, First thanks to Linus who start this wonderful OS and giving out for free. I am from Hong Kong and I would like to contribute on linux kerenl developments. I am a newbie to linux kernel hacking. I started on memory management system as my company is developing a linux native hardware platform which is a diskless computer. Now I am writing experimental filesystems using the idea from Erez who wrote the FiST which is a powerful stackable filesystem. I am now debuging the code from him to make the filesystem working properly on a production system. My work is to improve the reliability, performance and manageability of the platform. That makes me dig in deep into the kernel recently. I sucessfully ported the code for nfsswap from Justus Heine to kernel from 2.4.0 to 2.4.6 , up to know my system is running 2.4.4 . I also improve the code a bit to improve some of the overheads and now it is running fine on the system. But I notice that the sources from the kernel seems want a future of nfs swap support, but there are not official code for this at the moment. I have tested the nfsswap code for a couple of months and reporting no errors at all even under extreme high loaded ethernet. I would be happy to make myself contributing the kernel development and supporting the work for nfsswap and FiST . I would like to share the code with others. If this message is heard by the VFS maintainer, please contact me. Thanks. regards, David Chow