[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
<gugabrand at gmail.com>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 <vbellur at redhat.com> 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<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<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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>


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Regards,
Kunal Kushwaha
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