FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

[Fabian Keil]

dweimer <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:

> On 2012-10-22 12:44, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:

> > Update:
> >
> > It looks pretty bad so far. Page:
> >
> > 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks
> >
> > Has 38 tasks so far out of which:
> >
> > 	~30 would qualify.
> >
> > Consider this e-mail to be the last call for action. Otherwise we'll 
> > have to
> > pull back and concentrate our efforts on GSOC instead.
> 
> One thing I can think to add if it's not already been done and if its a 
> practical idea for the Google project, would be to update the mount_udf 
> command to support newer versions of UDF. It looks like as of FreeBSD 7 
> that 1.02 & 1.50 are supported, I( haven't been able to find any more 
> recent documentation to support whether or not updates have been made 
> since then.
> 
> I only know that server I have running 9.0, for the purpose of hosting 
> ISO images on the network so they are available to our ESX environment 
> for mounting as a local CDROM/DVD within virtual machines, and also 
> available as files over a network share, can't mount the some of the 
> more recent DVDs in the UDF format, but I am unsure which format they 
> are in, they could be 2.0, 2.5, or 2.6.

There's work in progress to port the UDF code from NetBSD:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/SummerOfCode2012/UDFImplementation

Oleksandr posted a patch on freebsd-fs@ in July.

Fabian
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