“Jens Axboe has been involved with Linux since 1993. 30 years
old, he lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, and works as a Linux Kernel
developer for Oracle. His block layer rewrite launched the 2.5
kernel development branch, a layer he continues to maintain and
improve. Interested in most anything dealing with IO, he has
introduced several new IO schedulers to the kernel, including the
default CFQ, or Complete Fair Queuing scheduler.“In this interview, Jens talks about how he got interested in
Linux, how he became the maintainer of the block layer and other
block devices, and what’s involved in being a maintainer…”