LCA: Why filesystems are hard [LWN.net]

LCA: Why filesystems are hard

Posted Jan 22, 2010 15:18 UTC (Fri) by ricwheeler (subscriber, #4980)
Parent article: LCA: Why filesystems are hard

I certainly disagree with the comment that no one is investing in file systems.

At Red Hat, we have a team of 15 file system developers who contribute actively to a host of projects - ext2/3/4, btrfs, gfs2, NFS, CIFS, xfs and others. Not to mention the qa & performance teams who turn our development code into hardened, high performance platforms for a huge number of businesses.

Let's not paint an overly bleak picture, I think that the Linux file system community has made substantial and significant gains in the past few years and we certainly match or exceed the investment in this area that is done by proprietary vendors.

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Investing in filesystems

Posted Jan 22, 2010 18:49 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I have probably not really conveyed what Ted said clearly here; he was saying that almost nobody else is really investing in filesystems. The investment from the Linux community is large and easily visible.

Investing in filesystems

Posted Jan 28, 2010 13:22 UTC (Thu) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010) [Link]

Well I do see news about DragonflyBSD's HAMMER from time to time.