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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 1:07p |
[$] Testing and the stable tree
The stable tree was the topic for a plenary session led by Sasha Levin at
the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM).
One of the main areas that needs attention is testing, according to Levin.
He wanted to discuss how to do more and better testing as well as to
address any concerns that attendees might have with regard to the stable tree. | | 3:11p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (sox and vcftools), Fedora (safelease and sharpziplib), openSUSE (chromium, evolution, graphviz, nmap, systemd, transfig, and ucode-intel), Red Hat (pacemaker), SUSE (curl, libvirt, openssl, php7, php72, and systemd), and Ubuntu (gnome-desktop3, keepalived, and samba). | | 5:36p |
[$] Improving .deb Debian Linux and its family of derivatives (such as Ubuntu) are partly
characterized by their use of .deb as the packaging format.
Packages in this format are produced not only by the distributions themselves,
but also by independent software vendors. The last major change of the format
internals happened back in 1995. However, a discussion of possible
changes has been brought up recently on the debian-devel mailing list by Adam
Borowski. | | 6:21p |
[$] Storage testing
Ted Ts'o led a discussion on storage testing and, in particular, on his
experience getting blktests running for his test
environment,
in a combined storage and filesystem session at the 2019 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit. He has been adding more testing
to his automated test platform, including blktests, and he would like to
see more people running storage tests. The idea of his session was to see
what could be done to help that cause. | | 10:53p |
[$] A way to do atomic writes
Finding a way for applications to do atomic writes to files, so that either
the old or new data is present after a crash and not a combination of the
two, was the topic of a session
led by Christoph Hellwig at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and
Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM).
Application developers hate the fact that when they update files in place,
a crash can leave them with old or new data—or sometimes a combination of
both.
He discussed some implementation ideas
that he has for atomic writes for XFS and wanted to see what the other
filesystem developers thought about it. |
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