Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

[xiaonan830818@gmail.com (Nan Xiao)]

Hi Tran Ly Vu,

> How exactly do i start to contribute to linux community, i.e fix bug, etc

Below are my suggestions:

(1) Select a module which you are interested;
(2) Dive into the source code; subscribe the related mailing list and
concentrate on the news& updates of this module;
(3) After you are familiar with this module, you can take part in it: add
feature, fix bug, etc.

Best Regards
Nan Xiao

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Tran Ly Vu <vutransingapore@gmail.com>
wrote:

> HI,
>
> I have signed up for the eudyptula challenge to start off.
>
> How exactly do i start to contribute to linux community, i.e fix bug, etc
>
> Thanks
>
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> > Hi!
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> > I have been looking at versions 1,2,3 and 4 of the linux kernel. I would
> > like to know what are the programs for the kernel development
> environment.
> > To test them and add new features.
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> > Thank you very much!
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> > Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 02:50:06 +0200
> > From: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
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> > Hi,
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> > On 11.04.2017 02:10, juan pedro meri?o wrote:
> >> Hi!
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> >> I have been looking at versions 1,2,3 and 4 of the linux kernel. I would
> >> like to know what are the programs for the kernel development
> environment.
> >> To test them and add new features.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much!
> > Please take a look at this site:
> >
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/index.html
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> > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:28:31 -0400
> > From: nick <xerofoify@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Btrfs Questions for Personal Data Archive
> > To: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
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> > Greetings All,
> > I am assuming this is coming from me it's just going to get  no reply.
> However if someone
> > who works on btrfs is willing to reply to this I have a few questions.
> Firstly I have a
> > lot of personal storage for archiving various things probably around
> ~37TB filled currently
> > in external drives and estimate the archive to grow to around ~300 to
> 400 TB. All of
> > these numbers are unformatted for people's information. I have been
> using btrfs but
> > need to ask a few questions for how to create a central archive best:
> >
> > 1.Does the compression algorithms used as according to my knowledge they
> don't do
> > it well enough to enable it for non text files? What are the performance
> disadvantages
> > from a IO perspective(I can Google this but I want numbers from someone
> who works
> > in a data center)? This is primary due to the central archive needing to
> be used
> > for many different systems at a time. I assume around 3-4 on average
> maybe more
> > including during a rebuild. Some of it is also hit bit rate encodes I
> have done
> > for bluray which are around 10-22mbps per second and may need to be
> watched during
> > a raid rebuild. GPU processing will be client side so don't worry about
> that.
> >
> > 2. Same as above but for software raid versus hardware raid in btrfs.I
> am stressing
> > rebuild time here on a raid 5/6. Probably going to use raid 60 as that
> gives me
> > a mirror plus two drives failure for redundancy.
> >
> > 3. I have found very little information on this but does the metadata
> being on a SSD
> > actually help with performance? Very little information exist off the
> wiki for this.
> > I literally goggled for a few hours and found very little even in terms
> of papers.
> >
> > Further more the archive is going to be on external hard drives for a
> while, as hard
> > drives are not big enough. If people want more information or have
> advice on how
> > to scale this out that would be very helpful. Generally I am looking for
> information
> > related to btrfs.
> >
> > If anyone replies huge thanks,
> > Nick
> > P.S. If anyone tells me to send my questions to the btrfs list I did
> some stupid things and
> > was banned from vger so I am just sending it here for now.
> >
> >
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