From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 24 06:05:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D612106567C for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E248FC16 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (pD9E2C91C.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.201.28]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4FCE844020; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:48:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.2.1]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAB81A63C3; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:48:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:48:34 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Nirmal Thacker Message-ID: <20090624074834.00005bd9@unknown> In-Reply-To: <87429ffe0906231252j7c84489dt6ebd60333654f411@mail.gmail.com> References: <87429ffe0906231252j7c84489dt6ebd60333654f411@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: D4FCE844020.A66A6 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1246427321.77905@vStNubBu7gxwfz0lRN7SwQ X-EBL-Spam-Status: No X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:13:34 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:05:58 -0000 On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:52:04 -0400 Nirmal Thacker wrote: > I would also appreciate if I could get simple tips and pointers of > setting up my machine for the project. I understand this would be on > the lines of: > > 1. Installing a stable FreeBSD build > 2. Check out a version of the Build suitable for the project All development is taking place in -CURRENT, so you would have to check out this one, or you install it right away, it's not declared stable yet, but as we have started the release management process for 8.0, it's not that unstable either... :) > 3. Pointers to begin studying the current implementation in the > code-tree structure (would I expect it to lie in the fs/ directory?). > I tried to find it in the FreeBSD cross reference > (http://fxr.watson.org/) 4. Read some important sections of the > developer handbook (some suggestions would be great) Dump is a complete userland implementation. All you need to know is the userland programming stuff, specially for what you want to do. You can find it online at http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sbin/dump/ Bye, Alexander.