I'm interested in a persistent memory track. There seems to be plenty of other emails about this, but here's my take: First, I'm not an FS expert. I've never written an FS, touched an on-disk (or on-persistent-memory) FS format. I have, however, mucked with some low-level x86 details, and I'm a heavy abuser of the Linux page cache. I'm an upcoming user of persistent memory -- I have some (in the form if NV-DIMMs) and I have an application (HFT and a memory-backed database thing) that I'll port to run on pmfs or ext4 w/ XIP once everything is ready. I'm also interested in some of the implementation details. For this stuff to be reliable on anything resembling commodity hardware, there will be some caching issues to deal with. For example, I think it would be handy to run things like pmfs on top of write-through mappings. This is currently barely supportable (and only using mtrrs), but it's not terribly complicated (on new enough hardware) to support real write-through PAT entries. I've written an i2c-imc driver (currently in limbo on the i2c list), which will likely be used for control operations on NV-DIMMs plugged into Intel-based server boards. In principle, I could even bring a working NV-DIMM system to the summit -- it's nearby, and this thing isn't *that* large :) --Andy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>