[$] The Machine: Controlling storage with a filesystem

Keith Packard is the chief architect for The Machine project at HPE; wecovered his talk on this project back in2015. At the 2017 linux.conf.au Kernel Miniconf, Packard focused on onespecific aspect of The Machine's hardware and software configuration: howstorage is managed and presented to applications. Like much that is beingdone with this project, its storage architecture is an interestingcombination of new ideas and long-established techniques.