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Linux Kernel Block Maintainer Joins Facebook

Just a matter of weeks after the lead Btrfs file-system developers joined Facebook after leaving the Fusion-io data storage company, another key Linux kernel developer has left his post at Fusion-io to join the social network company.

Jens Axboe, the block layer maintainer for the mainline Linux kernel and is also responsible for lots of the other block and disk related work within the Linux kernel, is Facebook’s newest employee.

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