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On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:30:36PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I for one am looking very seriously at this problem together with Bruce.
> > We plan to have a discussion on this topic at the next LSF meeting
> > in Boston.
> 
> As luck would have it, the Memory Management summit is co-located with
> the Storage and Filesystem workshop ... how about just planning to lock
> all the protagonists in a room if it's not solved by August.  The less
> extreme might even like to propose topics for the plenary sessions ...

I'd personally hope that this is solved long before the LSF/VM
workshops.... but if not, yes, we should definitely tackle it then.

      	     	       	  	 	    	   - Ted
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