| Time |
Event |
| 12:46a |
[$] Filesystems for zoned block devices
Damien Le Moal and Naohiro Aota led a combined storage and filesystem
session at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit
(LSFMM) on filesystem work that has been done for zoned block devices.
These devices have multiple zones with different characteristics; usually
there are zones that can only be written in sequential order as well as
conventional zones that can be written in random order. The genesis of zoned
block devices is shingled
magnetic recording (SMR) devices, which were created to increase the
capacity of hard disks, but at the cost of some flexibility. |
| 2:42p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (drupal7 and jackson-databind), Fedora (checkstyle and gradle), openSUSE (qemu and xen), SUSE (ffmpeg, kvm, and ucode-intel), and Ubuntu (libraw and python-urllib3). |
| 4:17p |
[$] openSUSE considers governance options
The relationship between SUSE and the openSUSE community is currently under
discussion as the community considers different options for how it wants
to be organized and governed in the future. Among the options under
consideration is the
possibility of openSUSE setting up an entirely independent foundation, as
it seeks greater autonomy and control over its own future and operations. |
| 4:38p |
Mourning Martin Schwidefsky The kernel mailing lists carry the sad newsthat longtime kernel contributor and subsystem maintainer Martin Schwidefsky has been killed in an accident. " Martin was the most significant contributor to the initial s390 port
of the Linux Kernel and later the maintainer of the s390 architecture
backend. His technical expertise as well as his mentoring skills were
outstanding. Martin was well known for his positive mindset and his
willingness to help.
He will be greatly missed." |
| 7:03p |
[$] Filesystems and crash resistance
The "guarantees" that existing filesystems make with regard to persistence
in the face of a system crash was the subject of a session led by Amir
Goldstein at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management
Summit (LSFMM). The problem is that filesystem developers are not willing
to make much in the way of guarantees unless applications call fsync()—something
that is not popular with application developers, who want a cheaper option. |
| 7:14p |
Firefox 67 released The Mozilla blog takes
a look at the Firefox 67 release. " Today’s new Firefox release
continues to bring fast and private together right at the crossroads of
performance and security. It includes improvements that continue to keep
Firefox fast while giving you more control and assurance through new
features that your personal information is safe while you’re online with
us." See the release
notes for more information. |
| 10:58p |
[$] Asynchronous fsync()
The cost of fsync()
is well known to filesystem developers,
which is why there are efforts to provide
cheaper alternatives. Ric Wheeler wanted to discuss the longstanding idea of
adding an asynchronous version of fsync() in a filesystem session
at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit
(LSFMM). It
turns out that what he wants may already be available via the new io_uring interface. |