From: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ext4 developer's get-together at Collaboration Summit/LSFMM
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:32:43 -0500
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To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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On 03/08/2013 01:53 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 01:06:29PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> Any chance to move this time slot to the morning or, even better, an
>> earlier day in the week?
>>
>> We have a track on IO & file systems that this overlaps with on
>> Wednesday. Updates from FusionIO on their new, byte addressable
>> parts and an open source file system and a panel at the end of the
>> day for LSF people who are at both....
> I got a request for people to hold it on Wednesday so that people
> didn't have to fly out early before LSF, which I'm sure is the same
> reason why you're having the track on I/O and filesystems on
> Wednesday.  :-)

Guilty!

>
> I did look at the schedule, and I deliberately scheduled things so we
> would end before the panel at the end of the day, since I assumed
> people would want to listen to that.
>
> As for the rest of the day, I had taken a quick look at the schedule
> for Collab Summit, and I didn't see any obvious conflicts; I had
> assumed the NVM talk would be another "phase change memory (or some
> other resistive memory) that has the random write speed of DRAM, the
> random read speeed of Flash, the cost per megabyte of HDD's, and the
> with infinite write endurance is coming around the corner, and will
> only be two years out so we should start redesigning and rewriting the
> kernel and file systems now" --- i.e., the same thing we've been
> hearing for the past decade, if not longer.  :-)

That is probably a good talk to attend - they do have a file system 
implementation that Nisha is promising to open source. They also have some 
device level API's that they want to propose. It would be great to get the key 
ext* people to sit in on that :)

>
> But if people need to speak at some of these slots, or are very much
> interested in attending we can certainly talk about trying to move
> things around to accomodate people's schedule and desire to attend
> Collab Summit talks.
>
> What do people think?
>
> 					- Ted