From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM ATTEND] Persistent Memory
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:04:04 +0100
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To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
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  Added some relevant lists to CC (please don't forget about this).

On Tue 24-12-13 17:44:35, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> I would like to attend LSF/MM 2014 - I am especially interested in
> discussions around persistent memory. I have been studying EXT4 and
> researching on what we'd have to do to best enable it for
> byte-addressable persistent memory.
  Do you have some concrete suggestions or observations regarding this?
Because discussing abstract ideas without actually trying something out
beforehand doesn't usually result in a useful discussion...
 
> I am relatively new in the Linux kernel world, and my previous
> experience has been with device driver work - I wrote a SCSI SG_IO
> translation layer for the NVMe driver. I also contributed to PMFS -
> https://github.com/linux-pmfs/pmfs which was our go-to route for
> enabling PM in the kernel before we decided EXT4 would be a better
> choice.
  I would be interested what were your reasons for the decision. Can you
elaborate a bit (that's just my personal curiosity)?

							Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR