[haiku-development] Re: GSOC Idea Suggestion

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ziyu Yu <yuziyumail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Maybe implement a Journal Block Device first before the wirte support
>> of ext3 is a good idea. So we can employ it in the further work of
>> write support of other journal file system.
>
> A journal block device is actually of limited use, as that's not how
> one would usually implement a journal (well, besides BFS and ext3, that
> is). It's a valid abstraction layer, though, but one that should be
> pretty easy to write, too.
> So at least it wouldn't make a whole GSoC project IMO.
>

Just remember, if you string up enough smaller ideas together, then
you'll eventually have enough for a GSoC project.

--mmadia

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