Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] - SMR Modifications to EXT4 (and other generic file systems)

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 01/07/2015 03:57 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 01/06/2015 06:29 PM, Adrian Palmer wrote:
>> I'd like to host a discussion of SMRFFS and ZAC for consumer and cloud
>> systems at LSF/MM. I want to gather community consensus at LSF/MM of the
>> required technical kernel changes before this topic is presented at Vault.
>>
>> Subtopics:
>>
>> On-disk metadata structures and data algorithms
>> Explicit in-order write requirement and a look at the IO stack
>> New IOCTLs to call from the FS and the need to know about the underlying
>> disk -- no longer completely disk agnostic
> 
> Where can we read about the details of SMRFFS before LSF/MM / Vault?
> 
Please be aware that I've been working on a ZAC prototype, and have
applied for a session at LSF/MM.
And my paper for Vault has just been accepted (which will be a survey of
existing filesystems and their suitability for SMR drives).

Can you keep me in the loop here?
Maybe we should have a joint session at LSF ...

Cheers,

Hannes
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