Add a bunch of new projects:
- Port OpenBSD's sensors framework - lint(1) improvements from OpenBSD - Port prebind from OpenBSD - Add hashed .db support to pkg_tools Submitted by: netchild [1-3] Submitted by: kris [4]
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/index.sgml,v 1.89 2007/02/17 10:52:21 joel Exp $">
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<h3>File System</h3>
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<h3>File System</h3>
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<li><a href="#p-extenddump">Extend UFS2 dump/restore support</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-extenddump">Extend dump/restore (extended attributes)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-mdfs">MDFS lockups</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-mdfs">MDFS lockups</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-tmpfs">TMPFS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-busalloc">New bus_alloc_resources() API.</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-busalloc">New bus_alloc_resources() API.</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-pcihotplug">PCI-Hotplug support</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-pcihotplug">PCI-Hotplug support</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-psched">Pluggable Disk Scheduler</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-psched">Pluggable Disk Scheduler</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-sensors">Port OpenBSD's sensors framework</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-trussprocfs">Remove procfs dependencies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-trussprocfs">Remove procfs dependencies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-syncer">Rewrite the in-kernel file system syncer</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-syncer">Rewrite the in-kernel file system syncer</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-suspend">Suspend to disk</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-suspend">Suspend to disk</a></li>
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<h3>Ports</h3>
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<h3>Ports</h3>
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<li><a href="#p-ports-db">Add hashed .db support to pkg_tools</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ports-uid">Automatic registering of UID and GID</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ports-uid">Automatic registering of UID and GID</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ports-cleanup-use">Cleanup of USE and WITH variables</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ports-cleanup-use">Cleanup of USE and WITH variables</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ports-comp43tty">COMPAT_43TTY</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ports-comp43tty">COMPAT_43TTY</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-bsdelftools">BSD-licensed ELF Tools</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-bsdelftools">BSD-licensed ELF Tools</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-noswitches">Build options improvements</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-noswitches">Build options improvements</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-lint">lint(1) improvements from OpenBSD</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-libprocnet">Libprocstat and libnetstat</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-libprocnet">Libprocstat and libnetstat</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-multibyte">Multibyte collation support</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-multibyte">Multibyte collation support</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ndmp">NDMP data server</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-ndmp">NDMP data server</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-performancetracking">Performance tracking</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-performancetracking">Performance tracking</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-libumem">Port libumem to FreeBSD</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-libumem">Port libumem to FreeBSD</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-prebind">Port prebind from OpenBSD</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-pxeinstaller">PXE Installer</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-pxeinstaller">PXE Installer</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-regression">Regression testing system</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-regression">Regression testing system</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-sysinstall">Sysinstall</a></li>
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<li><a href="#p-sysinstall">Sysinstall</a></li>
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<a name="p-extenddump"></a>
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<h2>Extend UFS2 dump/restore support for UFS2</h2>
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<h2>Extend dump/restore (extended attributes)</h2>
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<p>The UFS2 file system in FreeBSD supports extended attributes. Extended
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<p>The UFS2 file system in FreeBSD supports extended attributes. Extended
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attributes are meta-data associated with vnodes representing files and
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attributes are meta-data associated with vnodes representing files and
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directories. Unfortunately dump and restore do not backup or restore
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directories. Unfortunately dump and restore do not backup or restore
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such attributes. People interested in this should contact <a
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such attributes. People interested in this should contact <a
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href="mailto:mckusick@FreeBSD.org">&a.mckusick;</a>.</p>
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href="mailto:mckusick@FreeBSD.org">&a.mckusick;</a>.</p>
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<p>Furthermore a performance evaluation of the split cache (as is) and
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an unified cache (like e.g. NetBSD) would be interesting. More details
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in <a
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href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html">
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this</a> mail to the hackers mailing-list.</p>
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<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
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<li>Knowledge of C programming.</li>
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<li>Knowledge of C programming.</li>
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<a name="p-sensors"></a>
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<h2>Port OpenBSD's sensors framework</h2>
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<p><strong>References</strong>: <a
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href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">Overview</a>,
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/sensorsd/">
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http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/sensorsd/</a>,
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/bioctl/">
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http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/bioctl/</a>, <a
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http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/scsi/safte.c</a></p>
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<p>The OpenBSD sensors framework is an unified way of handling
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any kind of hardware sensor one can image. A sensor driver collects
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data from system sensors, SAS devices, harddisks, ... and allows an
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administrator to query the data with the unified management interface.</p>
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<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
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<li>Ability to read and understand foreign C code.</li>
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<li>Ability to write C code.</li>
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<h2>Remove procfs dependencies</h2>
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<h2>Remove procfs dependencies</h2>
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<p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a
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<p>pkg_create(1) and friends use flat databases (aka ordinary
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files and directories in /var/db/pkg) to maintain their data. This
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makes it cumbersome and/or impossible to do efficient lookups of data
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on installed packages and makes certain operations very slow.
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portupgrade has the right idea of hashing this into a berkeley db
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file, but it uses tools that are not in the base system (ruby).</p>
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<p>A self-contained project would be to add similar (preferably
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the data that is stored and allowing for more flexible querying with
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tools like pkg_info (e.g. replicating the pkg_which utility of
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portupgrade). Adding mutual exclusion to protect concurrent
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speed up application startup when a lot of libraries are involved.
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