User:Vijairaj

The GNUs Indexed FileSystem:

Design goals:

• For desktop machines
• For large storage - so a little overhead in terms of disk space is permitted.

Developers:

• Vijairaj. R
• Udhyakumar. N
• Subramaniam. R

Status:

Planning

Before starting:

• VFS - Filesystem interface for linux.
• Algorithms for indexing a file during a disk write.
• Filters for non text files like pdf.
• Linux kernel module programming.
• Possibility of using c++

Reference:

• ReiserFS - http://www.namesys.com/
• ExtFS - http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/fs/filesystem.html