From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fieldses.org ([173.255.197.46]:40394 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770AbdAPRRJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:17:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:17:08 -0500 To: Oleg Drokin Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] FS jitter testing, network caching, Lustre, cluster filesystems. Message-ID: <20170116171708.GC2953@fieldses.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 06:38:43PM -0500, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to attend filesystem track in the LSF/MM this year. > > Other than the obvious Lustre related stuff (ie hearing from Christoph > how bad Lustre is and what other parts of it we need to remove), > I can share hopefully useful testing methods we came up with in our group > that more people can benefit from apparently, as evidenced by some interest > from NFS people due to a bunch of problems I was able to uncover. Yes, I remember at least this found some races after the server's NFSv4 state locking was rewritten. --b. > I suspect other networking filesystems would benefit here. > > I also see there's potentially going to be a caching discussion that sounds > pretty relevant to Lustre too. > This probably would go hand-in-hand with a somewhat recent discusison with Al Viro > about potentially redoing "unmount the subtrees on dentry invalidation" that > appears to be overly aggressive now. > > A container support from filesystems is also very relevant to us since Lustre > is used more and more in such settings. > > Bye, > Oleg-- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html