[GLLUG] Looking for some open source projects (local) to aid in

[vanek]

I've never heard of anybody complain of disk fragmentation problems on 
the extX file systems. In fact, I've heard the opposite, that the random 
file storage across the disk can actually reduce head-travel when using 
the elevator algorithm.
The btree-based file systems, on the other hand, I've heard could use 
this optimization.(If I'm not mistaken, I believe both reiser and btrfs 
use a structure similar to b-trees.)

Richard Houser wrote:
> ...
> I've seen talk of writing the defragmenter in #3 a few times as well.
> I could be mistaken here, but the kernel developers keep pushing it
> off because it's not really much of an issue, especially if you keep a
> portion of the drive free.  If you want to defragment a Linux
> filesystem yourself, you just need to ensure some free space, then
> copy and delete each file (preserving attributes of course).  If you
> reserve a larger portion for root, you can prevent it from getting
> fragmented much in the first place.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Steven Sayers<sjsayers93 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Those seem a bit too advanced for me sadly .
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:34 PM, David Lee Lambert<davidl at lmert.com>  wrote:
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>>> Steven Sayers wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I've been studying programming quite a lot lately and I was wondering if
>>>> there were any programming projects any of you were engaged in that I could
>>>> assist with, I'm most familiar with java.
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>>> I can't say I'm "engaged with" any open-source projects,  as I'd have to
>>> get permission from my current employer's lawyers (and they're a big company
>>> with a lot of lawyers) to submit a public contribution anywhere.  However,
>>>   I do have a few pet projects I'd like to see implemented,  and I could send
>>> you my notes on some of them off-list if you might be able to do something
>>> with them.  A few are:
>>>
>>> 1.  Add Office 2007 (multiple XML in a ZIP, like OpenOffice) or Office
>>> 2003 XML import/export support to JExcelAPI.  (The current maintainers have
>>> said they have no intention of doing so themselves)
>>> 2.  Add legacy sound support (win16 audio functions and better PC speaker
>>> emulation) to Wine.
>>> 3.  Defragmentation support for ext2/3/4fs.  Or, at least, a nice
>>> graphical display of the way in which a filesystem is fragmented.   (The
>>> graphics could be done in Java,  but there's probably a need for a new
>>> kernel interface to actually move parts of files around.)
>>>
>>> --
>>> DLL
>>>
>>>        
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