Friday, January 15, 2010

BSM Progress

It has been a while since I posted anything here. I lost my code in an upgrade mishap, so I started over. I changed the design of the system to do inline deduplication on blocks coming in to the sysetm. I have not gotten far enough yet to see how the deduplication works and how much space it saves, but that is coming soon. I have the client talking to the server, and that is a start.

I am reading Code Complete by Steve McConnell to get some good ideas on coding style. I have a couple of more books coming, because I realize after starting this that while I know a little bit about C language programming, I do not know enough about making it readable and chunking it up into smaller pieces to make it easier to manage.

If anyone has suggestions about books or pdf's that can help in this area, please let me know.