Re: [Gluster-devel] looking for a start point to start Glusterfs development

[Kunal Kushwaha]

Thanks Vijay and Gustavo,

Your pointers are helpful.

Looking forward to work with you all :)

Best Regards,

Kunal Kushwaha

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Gustavo Bervian Brand <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Kunal,

  I began to study gluster and use it to try some concepts by the middle of 2012 and for me the most useful sources of information were/are:

  To begin with:

  - The four posts "Translator 101" from Jeff Darcy at http://hekafs.org/index.php/2011/11/

  - The translator api description at http://hekafs.org/dist/xlator_api_2.html

  Then:

  - The gluster-devel list history at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel 

  - About the gluster protocol comm, some reverse engineering Niels presented at the last Gluster workshop at Linuxcon

       http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/File:Gluster_Wireshark_Niels_de_Vos.pdf

  And some online doxygen documentation I found through the web from version 3.2.7 (you can always generate it yourself, but a direct like that sometimes is useful too).

  - http://fossies.org/unix/privat/glusterfs-3.2.7.tar.gz/dox/struct__inode__ctx.html

Best,
Gustavo Brand
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Vijay Bellur <address@hidden> wrote:

On 01/17/2013 06:16 PM, Kunal Kushwaha wrote:

Hi,

I am new to this community. I am very much interested in glusterfs
development.

Welcome aboard! Glad to have you in this community.

Can anybody help me to give some pointers, from where I can start? or
any specific feature set where I can start looking ?

The best place to start digging in would be the source code :). Apart from the source code, some of these documents/articles can help improve your understanding of GlusterFS better:

http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Developers

Jeff's blogs at: http://hekafs.org

You can also hop on to #gluster-dev on freenode where most of the developers hang out.

You can also find a list of todos in GlusterFS here:

http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Planning34

Raghavendra (in CC) is also aggregating a new set of todo items. You should see that in the gluster.org wiki shortly.

I have a decent experience in Linux kernel development (6+ yrs) and
worked mostly in Storage technologies (RAID )  and plan to give at least
4-6 hours a week to this project.

looking forward to work in this community.

Look forward to your participation!

Cheers,
Vijay

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