From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Myers Subject: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] stability of vfs level interfaces Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:16:45 -0600 Message-ID: <20140115211645.GQ10553@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:53761 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750867AbaAOVQq (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:16:46 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Folks, I'd like to attend LSF/MM this year. One subject that I'm interested in discussing is the stability of vfs level interfaces. It seems like there is a lot going on, and that can make things interesting for anyone who wants to maintain a single filesystem codebase on multiple distros. e.g. To run a xfs codebase from 3.0 on a 2.6.32 kernel, my count is 28 items to deal with. If anyone would like to discuss this other than to say "Yeah don't do that", I'm happy to get the conversation started. Other topics I'm intersted in: T10 DIX support, SMR drives, persistent memory, and offline extents if there is an xfs break-out. Thanks, Ben