[ Thanks to Matthew
O’Keefe for this announcement. ]
The University of Minnesota GFS Group and T-Nova (formerly
Deutsche Telekom) are jointly holding a workshop in Darmstadt,
Germany on September 6-7, 1999.
A key enabler for Linux in the enterprise is storage management
software (SMS), including journaled file systems, logical volume
managers, RAID software, backup and recovery utilities, and storage
networking infrastructure. The energetic Linux hacker community has
been very active in this area, and has recently been joined by
large OEMs like SGI and HP and storage management software
specialists like Veritas.
In this 2-day workshop we propose to review the current
state-of-the-art in SMS software. We have attracted the leading
developers from the Linux hacker community as well as these leading
OEMs. In particular, the first technical details regarding SGI’s
port of XFS to Linux will be revealed at this meeting. We believe
that SMS in Linux is evolving very rapidly, and that Linux
limitations in this area are being addressed. Leading users are
exploiting Linux for managing large storage systems, and their
experience will help lead the way to future improvements.
For more information on this workshop and how to register,
please go to: