From: Luben Tuikov Subject: Re: CFP: Linux 2007 File System & IO Workshop Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20061018005013.97509.qmail@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1161129608.6245.61.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Reply-To: ltuikov@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Ric Wheeler , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, ext4@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, lsf07pc@usenix.org Return-path: To: James Bottomley In-Reply-To: <1161129608.6245.61.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org --- James Bottomley wrote: > You can submit it as your position paper, certainly. It is not a "position" paper. There is too much SCSI Architecture Model (SAM) in it. But from linux-scsi point of view I guess it is. > However, the object of this event is not to collect a list of papers to > be presented: it's not a conference with hundreds of attendees (if you > want to present to an audience, you should submit to FAST, which is such > a conference, with which we're co-located). It's a roundtable type > discussion with 20-25 people in the field; plus some plenary sessions to > get input and ideas from people working on the filesystem layer. The > object is to stimulate discussion of important issues (which may be > guided by papers or other materials). The position paper thing is only > to ensure people actually have things they want to discuss (and to allow > the programme committee to pick the attendees if there would be too > many). Ok, so this is targeted at the same 20-25 Linux people who attended the "Vancouver Storage summit" and you're just using FAST to co-locate. I incorrectly assumed that this was targeted at storage professionals not necessarily Linux related, but with Linux exposure so as to hear new ideas and pathways. I also missed to see the "by-invitation" clause at the top. Thanks for the explanation! Luben