Levanta is pleased to present on the topic of Linux Virtual File
Systems at the upcoming Kernel-Panic Linux User Group meeting on May
11, 2006. The presenter for this meeting will be Adam Fineberg, VP
Engineering, Levanta Corp. http://www.levanta.com
Bio: Adam has over 20 years of experience at startups and established
companies and has held senior management positions at Abeona Networks
and Narus, Inc. Before entering the startup world, Adam was a Research
Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Labs, working with the Human
Language Technology Group, and Senior Research Scientist and Manager
of Strategic Research at Motorola Lexicus Language Labs as well as a
Senior Scientist at the Apple Advanced Technology Group.
Adam holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters and Ph.D. in
Electrical and Computer Engineering, all from Rutgers University. Adam
is the author of 6 granted patents in the areas of signal processing
and pattern recognition.
Topic: Linux Virtual File System - Levanta's MapFS Open Source Project
Topic Abstract:
MapFS is an open source project by Levanta that implements a Linux
virtual filesystem, and utilizes lookup redirection and copy-on-write
functionality to allow component filesystems (or portions of them) to
be combined into a single virtual filesystem with file level
granularity.
This allows for a completely writable filesystem even if some of the
component filesystems are read-only. This functionality significantly
eases data sharing between multiple machines connected to a shared
storage medium (SAN/NAS/Mainframe DASD) as data can be optimally
shared between all of the machines in a way which is completely
transparent to the applications running on them.
As a Linux kernel-loadable module, MapFS has been developed under the
GPL since its incarnation in early 2004. MapFS is now being made
widely available to the Open Source community via SourceForge. It is
written in C, uses the standard Linux kernel VFS and loadable module
interfaces for defining new filesystem types to the kernel, and
supports (at least) kernel versions 2.4.7 to 2.6.15.
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circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already here,
and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are
well trained." - Edward R. Murrow
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