We are looking for an intern ...

[Cédric VINCENT]

Hello,

We are looking for an intern to implement or extend a new file-system
abstraction (a.k.a VFS) in PRoot. This VFS would be used:

- to improve the root privileges emulation ("-0" option)

- to implement a translation cache (speed-up)

- to implement a copy-on-write tool, à la http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~taesoo/pubs/2013/mbox/mbox.pdf

- <insert your own idea here>

Due to legal reasons, the intern has to come from a French school and
has to work in our offices in Grenoble, although English language is
OK. Feel free to contact <cedric....@gmail.com> for further
details.

Cédric.

[Corbin Champion]

Curious what features the VFS does have and will have?  Wondering if that will help with moving content to people's sdcard (a goal discussed previously).

Thanks,

Corbin

[Cédric VINCENT]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Corbin Champion <corb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Curious what features the VFS does have and will have?

Sadly no one applied :( I hope I'll have time to do this myself next
year...

> Wondering if that will help with moving content to people's sdcard
> (a goal discussed previously).

I think so. For instance, I'd like to write a "cpio to VFS" converter
in order to use a rootfs archived in a cpio file directly, ie. without
extracting files. Then, modifications would be redirected on-the-fly
to an external writable location (the COW extension mentionned
previsouly).


Cédric.

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[Corbin Champion]

>Sadly no one applied :(  I hope I'll have time to do this myself next year...

Did you run advertisements at all (outside of this forum)?  Luckily, next year is close at hand.

> I think so.  For instance, I'd like to write a "cpio to VFS" converter in order to use a rootfs archived in a cpio file directly, ie. without extracting files.  Then, modifications would be redirected on-the-fly to an external writable location (the COW extension mentionned previsouly).

This would be great for GNURoot.  I can certainly help in terms of trying it out and reporting issues.  Might be able to do more once I see your approach to this problem. 

Thanks!
Corbin