Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] ZUFS - Zero Copy User-Mode FileSystem - One year Later

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:35:54AM +0000, Harrosh, Boaz wrote:
> Linux Plumbers 2018: ZUFS - Zero Copy User-Mode FileSystem - One year Later
> 
> One year after its inception there are real hardened FSs. Real performance measurements.
> and many innovative fixtures. But is it ready for upstream?
> 
> Few highlights:
> 
> - ALL VFS api working including dax, mmap IOCTL xattrs ACLs ....
>   (Missing quota)
> - IO API changed (From last year)
> - Support for ASYNC operations
> - Support for both pmem and regular block devices
> - Support for private memory pools
> - ZTs multy-channel and dynamic channel allocation
> - And many more ...
> 
> In the talk I will give a short architectural and functional overview.
> Then will go over some of the leftover challenges.
> 
> And finally hope to engage in an open discussion of how this project should move forward
> to be accepted into the Kernel, gain more users and FS implementations.

Why wouldn't this be better discussed at the file-system-specific
conference?  Or have you already done that this year?

thanks,

greg k-h