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Wednesday, March 22 • 2:50pm - 3:40pm
The Extent of GFS2 - Steven Whitehouse, Red Hat

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The GFS2 cluster filesystem has proved itself as a robust and reliable filesystem for cluster use cases. Most of the recent development has been focussed on performance improvments, and improving the ease of use and deployment. This talk will cover recent developments in GFS2, but also discuss future plans too. When GFS was originally designed, it took a lot of inspiration from ext2/3 which resulted in bitmap based resource groups, and an equal height pointer tree for inode metadata. The question arises as to whether and how GFS2 might integrate support for extents. The talk will present the issues involved and the latest thoughts of the development team on this topic.
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Steven Whitehouse

Senior Manager, RHEL Filesystems, Red Hat
Steven Whitehouse currently manages the RHEL Filesystems team at Red Hat. His introduction to Linux kernel development came in 1993 when he wrote a small patch for AX.25, he is also the previous maintainer of Linux DECnet and the GFS2 Filesystem. Steven has spoken at a number of conferences... Read More →

Wednesday March 22, 2017 2:50pm - 3:40pm EDT
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  Filesystems

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