Linux FAST Summit ’16 Summary

Following FAST ’16, 26 people met for the 2016 USENIX Research in Linux File and Storage Technologies Summit (Linux FAST ’16) to discuss file systems, storage, and the Linux kernel. I’ve learned that the reason behind these discussions is to help people get their changes into the kernel, or at least to help people understand what the process is like. Ted Ts’o (Google) has pointed out at past Linux FAST workshops that there are already over 120 file systems in Linux, and getting new ones added is not going to be easy.