Linux Filesystem Developments

The last 18 months have seen an absolute surge in the Linux Filesystem space. Between the advent of University of Minnesota's GFS, SGI's XFS, IBM's JFS, Hans Reiser's Reiserfs, the old reliable ext2 and its journaling follow on ext3, it's enough to make one's head spin.

First we will provide a broad brush overview of the developments in the filesystem space in the recent history, and try to give a big picture of how they interrelate to one another. The talk will also review the history of Linux filesystem to provide a context for covering more recent filesystem developments.

Finally, the speaker will make a daring attempt (without a safety net!) to make some predictions for what the future may bring in the arena of filesystem and storage developments in Linux.

Theodore Ts'o

Ted has been a Linux kernel hacker since almost the very beginning. His is first project was implementing POSIX job control in the 0.10 Linux kernel. He is the maintainer and author for the Linux COM serial port driver and the Comtrol Rocketport driver. He architected and implemented Linux's tty layer. Outside of the kernel, he is the maintainer of the e2fsprogs and the e2fsck filesystem consistency checker. Theodore is currently participating in the Linux Standard Base efforts, and is chair of the technical board of Linux International. Outside of Linux, he was the development lead for Kerberos V5 at MIT for seven years, and is currently serving as IPSec working group chair in the Internet Engineering Task Force. He is currently employed by VA Linux Systems.

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