Linux 2007 File System & IO Workshop

Linux 2007 File System & IO Workshop

[Ric Wheeler]

Just a quick update, the submission process is now open through the 
usenix hosted url below. Please note that usenix is just helping us 
coordinate the site, no need to belong to usenix to attend.

http://www.usenix.org/events/lsf07/


Full details on the workshops below,

ric


2007 Linux Storage & Filesystem Workshop Call for Papers

2007 Linux Storage & Filesystem Workshop
February 12-13, 2007
San Jose, CA

Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association

Co-located with the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage 
Technologies (FAST '07), which will take place February 13-16, 2007.

Important Dates
Submissions due: November 24, 2006
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2006

Workshop Organizers

Program Chair
Ric Wheeler, EMC

Program Committee
Jens Axboe, Oracle
James Bottomley, SteelEye
Valerie Henson, Intel
Andrew Morton, Google
Trond Myklebust, Network Appliance
Brian Pawlowski, Network Appliance
Theodore Ts'o, IBM

Overview
The Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop is a small, tightly focused, 
by-invitation workshop. It is intended to bring together developers and 
researchers interested in implementing improvements in the Linux 
filesystem and storage subsystems that can find their way into the 
mainline kernel and into Linux distributions in the 2-3-year timeframe. 
The workshop will be two days, the second day overlapping with FAST '07 
tutorials. The workshop will be separated into storage and filesystem 
tracks, with a combined plenary session.

Topics and Submissions
Researchers and developers who are interested in attending should submit 
a 2-3-paragraph position paper that describes the topic or topics they 
would like to discuss during the workshop, and whether such a topic 
would suit the filesystem track, the storage track, or the plenary 
session. Examples of topics of interest include:

     * New trends in storage technologies likely to impact Linux in the 
next 3-5 years
     * More realistic methods of measuring filesystem and storage 
performance
     * Proposed improvements to Linux filesystems, including, in particular:
           o Handling of storage errors
           o Filesystem repair techniques
           o Scaling to very large (terabyte) filesystems
     * Progress reports on implementation of features discussed at the 
Portland Filesystem Summit
     * Changes to the interface between the operating system and storage 
devices
     * Proposed improvements to existing Linux storage subsystems, 
particularly with an emphasis on:
           o Refactoring common code out of storage subsystems and into 
the block layer
           o Better robustness and error recovery
           o Barrier implementations in the face of TCQ
           o Making use of storage capabilities (such as block guard or 
non-power-of-2 block sizes) for novel filesystem and application features
     * Progress reports on implementation of features discussed at the 
Vancouver Storage Summit
     * Userspace tools for managing storage systems (including better 
presentation to the user via sysfs)
     * Storage futures, including:
           o New transports
           o Changes to existing standards for new storage features
           o SAS/SATA convergence
           o Do we yet have a use for Object-Based Storage Devices (OSD)?

Submissions must be in plain text and must be submitted via the Web 
submission form, which will be available here soon. The submissions are 
intended as discussion topic proposals, not refereed papers.