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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:49:18 UTC
The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=c6d6c48402dc7cf1f5bbcc33d265cb2270a29f19 commit c6d6c48402dc7cf1f5bbcc33d265cb2270a29f19 Author: Soobin Rho <soobinrho@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2023-07-04 14:32:00 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-07-04 15:48:18 +0000 Status/2023Q2/mfsdbsd.adoc: Add report Reviewed by: jrm, status (Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>) Approved by: dbaio (mentor) Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/192 --- .../en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd.adoc | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc87253f1d --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +=== Integrate mfsBSD into the release building tools + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/IntegrateMfsBSDIntoTheReleaseBuildingTools[Wiki Article] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/IntegrateMfsBSDIntoTheReleaseBuildingTools[] + +Contact: Soobin Rho <soobinrho@FreeBSD.org> + +==== What is mfsBSD? + +"mfsBSD is a toolset to create small-sized but full-featured mfsroot based distributions of FreeBSD that store all files in memory (MFS) [Memory File System] and load from hard drive, usb storage device or optical media. +It can be used for a variety of purposes, including diskless systems, recovery partitions and remotely overwriting other operating systems." + +mailto:mm@FreeBSD.org[Martin Matuska] is both the author of the link:https://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/mfsbsd.pdf[mfsBSD white paper] and the maintainer of the link:https://github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd[mfsBSD repository]. + +==== Purpose of this project + +This project creates an additional target of the weekly snapshots of -current and -stable versions of mfsBSD images in the src/release makefile. +Currently, only the release versions of mfsBSD images are produced, which means they tend to get out of sync with the tools in base. +This project aims to address that problem. + +==== Location of this project + +This project is a GSoC 2023 (Google Summer of Code) project, under mentorship from mailto:otis@FreeBSD.org[Juraj Lutter] and mailto:jrm@FreeBSD.org[Joseph Mingrone]. + +As a GSoC project, the official coding period is between May 29, 2023 and August 28, 2023. +As a humble beginner in the open-source community, the author of this project welcomes all comments / suggestions / PR's to the link:https://github.com/soobinrho/freebsd-src/tree/integrate-mfsBSD-building[project repository], which is where all the code for this project will be located for the duration of the official GSoC coding period. + +Sponsor: Google, Inc. (GSoC 2023)