#41: Breaking Barriers: Making Adoption of Persistent Memory Easier

One of the major barriers to adoption of persistent memory is preparing applications to make use of it's direct access capabilities. This presentation discusses a new user space file system for persistent memory and how it breaks these barriers. The presentation introduces the key elements to consider for a user space persistent memory file system and discuss the internals of this new file system. The discussion concludes with a presentation of current status and performance of this new persistent memory file system. Learning Objectives: 1) Discussion of current barriers to persistent memory adoption; 2) Introduce how this new file system breaks down the barriers to adoption of persistent memory; 3) Introduce the SW internals of the this file system; 4) Present performance statistics and discussion of why this file system out-performs conventional, kernel based file systems.