2008 Linux Storage & Filesystem Workshop (LSF '08)

February 25–26, 2008, San Jose, CA

Co-located with the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08), February 26–29, 2008

About the Workshop

Overview

Organizers

Program

Important Dates

Submissions due:
December 3, 2007

Notification of invitation:
January 7, 2008

Call for Position Statements

Original Call for Position Statements

Sponsorship

Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Contact sponsorship@usenix.org.

Hotel & Travel

Hotel & Travel Information

About San Jose

Past Workshop

Check out the past workshops.

Workshop Program

Monday, February 25, 2008

8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Coffee and Pastries

9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.

Monday

Introduction and Opening Statements
Recap of Last Year

9:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Monday

SSD
Dongjun Shin
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10:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

Monday

Error Handling
Ric Wheeler

11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.

Monday

Power Management
Kristen Carlson Accardi
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11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Monday

FS and Storage Layer Scalability Problems
Dave Chinner
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12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m.–2:20 p.m.

Monday

Filesystem Track

Filesystem and NFS Communications
Dave Chinner
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Trond Myklebust
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Storage Track

New Libata API for Use by SAS Adapters
Brian King

2:20 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Monday

Filesystem Track

Address Space Operations
Christoph Hellwig and Steven Whitehouse
Mark Fasheh
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Storage Track

Making the IO Scheduler Aware of the Underlying Storage Topology
Aaron Carroll and Joshua Root
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3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m.–4:20 p.m

Monday

Filesystem Track

pNFS
Thomas Talpey, Ricardo Labiaga, and Trond Myklebust
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Storage Track

DMA Representations
sg_table vs. sg_ring
IOMMUs and LLD's Restrictions
Fujita Tomonori
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4:20 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Monday

Filesystem Track

Next Gen Filesystem Topics
Zach Brown
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Storage Track

ISCSI
Mike Christie
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Nicholas Bellinger
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5:00 p.m.–5:40 p.m.

Monday

Filesystem Track

Next Gen FS Topics Continued

Storage Track

Multipathing
Kiyoshi Ueda and Jun'ichi Nomura
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5:40 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Monday

Dinner Reception

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Coffee and Pastries

9:00 a.m.–9:40 a.m.

Tuesday

Filesystem Track

Stacking
Erez Zadok
Jan Blunck
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Storage Track

CFQ and Containers
Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
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9:40 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Tuesday

Filesystem Track

Filebench
Spencer Shepler, Eric Kustarz, and Andrew Wilson
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Storage Track

pNFS for Storage
OSD-based pNFS
Benny Halevy
Boaz Harrosh
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Block-based pNFS
Andy Adamson
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Jason Glasgow

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m.–11:40 a.m.

Tuesday

Filesystem Track

Volume Manager Integration
Dave Chinner and Chris Mason
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Storage Track

NCQ Emulation
Gwendal Grignou
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11:40 a.m.–12:20 p.m.

Tuesday

Filesystem Track

NFS
• IPv6
Chuck Lever
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• NFS RDMA
Tom Talpey

Storage Track

T10 Dif
Martin Petersen
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12:20 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m.–2:20 p.m.

Tuesday

Filesystem Track

Issues with data=ordered and Buffer Heads
Mark Fasheh
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Storage Track

FCoE
Robert Love
Christopher Leech
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2:20 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Tuesday

Filesystem Track

Ceph
Sage Weil
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Storage Track

SATA
Kristen Carlson Accardi
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3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m.–4:10 p.m.

Tuesday

Filesystem Track

Lease Extensions and Lock Recovery
Bruce Fields
Felix Blyakher
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Storage Track

Sysfs Representations
Hannes Reinecke and Kay Sievers
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4:10 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Tuesday

Summary, Lightning Talks, and Wrap-up

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

Tuesday

FAST '08 Welcome Get-Together
LSF '08 attendees are welcome to attend.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Tuesday

Workshop Summary BoF at FAST '08
Find out more about this BoF on the FAST '08 BoFs Web page.

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