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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Unnamed temporary files [3.11]</h1>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      Open directory with option <tt>O_TMPFILE</tt> to create an
+      unnamed temporary file on that filesystem
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      As with <tt>tmpfile()</tt>, the file disppears on
+      last <tt>close()</tt>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      File can be linked into the filesystem using
+      <tt>linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH)</tt>, allowing for 'atomic'
+      creation of file with complete contents and metadata
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Not supported on all filesystem types, so you will usually need
+      a fallback
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Lustre filesystem [3.12]</h1>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      A distributed filesystem, popular for cluster computing
+      applications
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Developed out-of-tree since 1999, but now added to Linux staging
+      directory
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Was included in squeeze but dropped from wheezy as it didn't
+      support Linux 3.2
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Userland is now missing from Debian
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Questions?</h1>
 </div>