[$] The Machine: Controlling storage with a filesystem
Keith Packard is the chief architect for The Machine project at HPE; we covered his talk on this project back in 2015. At the 2017 linux.conf.au Kernel Miniconf, Packard focused on one specific aspect of The Machine's hardware and software configuration: how storage is managed and presented to applications. Like much that is being done with this project, its storage architecture is an interesting combination of new ideas and long-established techniques.