LinuxCon Japan 2011 | Presentations

Current Work in File Systems: A Panel of Key Developers

Date: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 9:30am
Location: Room 501/502

File system continue to be an extremely active are of work in Linux. This panel brings together key contributors to the various file and storage system projects to answer questions about current and upcoming work and features.

Ric Wheeler, Red Hat (Moderator)

Ric works at Red Hat as the manager and architect of the kernel group's file system team. He has extensive experience in storage and file systems after having spent ten years at EMC in the Symmetrix and Centera groups, four years at The Open Group's Research Institute and four years at Thinking Machines working on the CM5 operating system. For the past ten years, Ric has been active in the Linux file system and IO world where he helped organize workshops, inform open source developers about high end storage and helped advance the robustness of the Linux IO & file system stack. He has also been a speaker at several Linux Foundation sponsored events.

James Bottomley, Parallels

James Bottomley is an active member of the open source community. He maintains the SCSI subsystem, the MCA subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 1997 he moved to the LifeKeeper HA project. He has spoken before at LinuxWorld, Usenix ATC, ALS, OLS and the Kernel Summit. James is also a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Linux Foundation.

Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao, NTT

Fernando is a Linux developer based in Tokyo. His current interests include virtualization, data center bridging technologies, and high performance networking and storage systems. He is currently a principal software engineer at NTT Open Software Center and senior consultant at NTT Data Intellilink, dividing his time between community open source work and his consulting and support duties at NTT.

Chris Mason, Oracle

Chris works in the Oracle Linux Kernel Engineering team, and is the lead developer in the Btrfs filesystem project.