Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit

August 8 - 9, 2010 · Renaissance Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
This event is co-located with LinuxCon 2010 and the Memory Management Summit.

The Linux Storage & Filesystems Summit is a small by-invitation summit which focuses on collaboration and implementation. It brings together developers and researchers who work with the Linux storage and file system stacks. Discussion focuses on current problems and upcoming technology which will arrive in one to two years. The summit takes place over two days and is made up of separate storage and file system tracks, combined plenary sessions, and hands-on development sessions.

This year, the Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit will be held jointly with the Memory Management Summit on the two days (Sunday and Monday) before LinuxCon in Boston at the Renaissance Hotel.  The plan is to hold some joint sessions and other sessions that will be split into three tracks: Filesystems, Storage and Memory Management.   We are encouraging proposals for discussion that cover areas relevant to all three groups as well as more specific technical topics.   

To Submit a Discussion Topic

Suggestions for agenda topics should be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , optionally, please CC the Linux list which would be most interested in that topic:

SCSI: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Filesystems: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (plus relevant fs specific list)
Memory Management: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please include the topic type [SCSI/FS/MM] in the subject of your email.  The agenda topics will be selected by the program committee but the final agenda will be formed by consensus of the attendees on the day of the summit.  Attendees will be limited to 20 per track to facilitate discussion, although the final numbers will depend on the room sizes at the venue.

To Attend

If you are interested in attending please email your request to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  and include a summary of what you will bring to the meeting and what you would like to discuss.  Please tag your email with [ATTEND] so that there's less of a chance that it gets lost.  Presentations are allowed to guide discussion, but are strongly discouraged. There will be no recording or audio bridge, however written minutes will be published as in previous years:

2009:
http://lwn.net/Articles/327601/
http://lwn.net/Articles/
http://lwn.net/Articles/

Prior:
http://www.usenix.org/events/lsf08/tech/lsf08sums.pdf
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2007-06

If you have feedback on last year's meeting that we can use to improve this year's, please also send that to:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it