I need suggestions for a practical work related with Kernel Development

[Facundo Viale <facundo.m.viale@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi! I'm new here and i what to introduce myself i'm teacher in a University in the course Operation Systems.

During the course the students learn some Operatyng Systems concepts, specially everything relating to the Kernel. As a practice task, they also have to use C to make a program with some Kernel functionalities. This year this task consists on programming a File System (I chose FAT32 since I thought it was the easiest one to implement) using FUSE and simulating a Hard Disk and a RAID behavior.

Since I'm not a Kernel expert I'm looking for some advice and ideas. The aim of the practice task I'm creating is to help the students make a program that simulates the behavior and functionalities of a Kernel (such as a File System, Memory Administrator, Planner, etc.), but at the same I would like those programs to really interact with the Kernel, being not only ideal simulation cases (like FUSE). But, as I said, I don't know that much to have a good idea of what can I use to make the most from the Kernel in the task.

I could really use some ideas!

Some of the things I have in mind:

- Use netlinks

- Build a kernel module 

- I'm also interested in the /dev/mem

¡Thanks a lot in advance! 

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