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+This page contains a list of project ideas which will be suitable for
+students (for GSOC, internship etc.)
+
+Projects with mentors
+---------------------
+
+### gfsck - A GlusterFS filesystem check
+
+-   A tool to check filesystem integrity and repairing
+-   I'm currently working on it
+-   Owner: Xavier Hernandez (Datalab)
+
+### Sub-directory mount support for native GlusterFS mounts
+
+Allow clients to directly mount directories inside a GlusterFS volume,
+like how NFS clients can mount directories inside an NFS export.
+
+Mentor: Kaushal <kshlmster at gmail dot com>
+
+### GlusterD services high availablity
+
+GlusterD should restart the processes it manages, bricks, nfs server,
+self-heal daemon and quota daemon, whenever it detects they have died.
+
+Mentor : Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83@gmail.com>
+
+### Language bindings for libgfapi
+
+-   API/library for accessing gluster volumes
+
+### oVirt gui for stats
+
+Have pretty graphs and tables in ovirt for the GlusterFS top and profile
+commands.
+
+### Monitoring integrations - munin others
+
+The more monitoring support we have for GlusterFS the better.
+
+### More compression algorithms for compression xlator
+
+The on-wire compression translator should be extended to support more
+compression algorithms. Ideally it should be pluggable.
+
+### Cinder GlusterFS backup driver
+
+Write a driver for cinder, a part of openstack, to allow backup onto
+GlusterFS volumes
+
+### rsockets - sockets for rdma transport
+
+Coding for RDMA using the familiar socket api should lead to a more
+robust rdma transport
+
+### Data import tool
+
+Create a tool which will allow importing already existing data in the
+brick directories into the gluster volume. This is most likely going to
+be a special rebalance process.
+
+### Rebalance improvements
+
+Improve rebalance performance.
+
+### Meta translator
+
+The meta xlator provides a /proc like interface to GlusterFS xlators.
+This could be improved upon and the meta xlator could be made a standard
+part of the volume graph.
+
+### Geo-replication using rest-api
+
+Might be suitable for geo replication over WAN.
+
+### Quota using underlying FS' quota
+
+GlusterFS quota is currently maintained completely in GlusterFSs
+namespace using xattrs. We could make use of the quota capabilities of
+the underlying fs (XFS) for better performance.
+
+### Snapshot pluggability
+
+Snapshot should be able to make use of snapshot support provided by
+btrfs for example.
+
+### Compression at rest
+
+Lessons learnt while implementing encryption at rest can be used with
+the compression at rest.
+
+### File-level deduplication
+
+GlusterFS works on files. So why not have dedup at the level files as
+well.
+
+### Composition xlator for small files
+
+Merge small files into a designated large file using our own custom
+semantics. This can improve our small file performance.
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