One common thing that I see a lot of these days is an increasing number of platforms that are built on our stack as storage servers. Ranging from the common linux based storage/NAS devices up to various distributed systems. Almost all of them use our common stack - software RAID, LVM, XFS/ext4 and samba.
At last year's SNIA developers conference, it was clear that Microsoft is putting a lot of effort into enhancing windows 8 server as a storage server with both support for a pNFS server and of course SMB. I think that linux (+samba) is ahead of the windows based storage appliances today, but they are putting together a very aggressive list of features.
I think that it would be useful and interesting to take a slot at this year's LSF to see how we are doing in this space. How large do we need to scale for an appliance? What kind of work is needed (support for the copy offload system call? better support for out of band notifications like those used in "thinly provisioned" SCSI devices? management API's? Ease of use CLI work? SMB2.2 support?).
The goal would be to see what technical gaps we have that need more active development in, not just a wish list :)
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