Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 10:40:54 +1000 | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project |
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On Thursday May 29, corbet@lwn.net wrote: > Ben H writes: > > > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 22:58 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > > > Not to distract from your points, but I think it's been a huge > > > mistake to not allow folks to work hard on technical issues > > > during the summit. > > > > Having been stopped a couple of times last year when trying to bring > > some technical subjects for the reason that they were "off topic, KS is > > for process" I tend to agree :-) > > Here's an idea: the discussion list for the 2008 summit has opened up. > This seems like an ideal time to make suggestions for technical topics > which you think would be appropriate for this gathering. Failing that, > you leave it up to the program committee to try to guess what's on > everybody's minds, and that seems certain to disappoint a lot of people. >
http://lwn.net/Articles/283161/
Barriers
What minimal semantics to Filesystem developers actually want? What can hardware really provide? What how can layered mutli-disk devices (md, dm, loop) mediate these?
What interface semantics can we come up with that are sufficiently general and powerful that everyone will actually implement them correctly?
However I won't be coming this year, so I won't be able to participate directly in such a discussion.
NeilBrown
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