Re: Working on Discard for FFS

tech-kern,

I wanted to follow up. I’m interesting in doing some work on this and
wanted to know the feasibility of and if there was any more information
pertaining to the project.

Best wishes,
Joshua Gillett
Harvard College ‘27
A.B. Candidate in Computer Science

On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM Joshua Gillett <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey tech-kern,
>
> I want to inquire about working on the "Discard for FFS" project listed on
> the wiki over the next couple of months.
>
> I just finished a semester-length OS course (working on teaching operating
> system, ChickadeeOS) where I wrote block-bitmap allocators, extent-based
> truncate/extend, journalling, and a write-back cache, so the topic should
> be familiar to me.
>
> With that said, I wanted to know if there was anyone working on this. I'd
> also welcome any mentorship or advice in regards to working on this project.
>
> Best wishes,
> Joshua Gillett
> Harvard College '27
> A.B. Candidate in Computer Science
>