NFS works with user namespaces; only XFS is left

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     <li>
       Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
-      <ul>
-       <li>
-         Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
-         and PCI code as necessary
-       </li>
-       <li>
-         Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
-         maintenance aside from ports
-       </li>
-       <li>
-         Maintaining Linux 3.2.<var>y</var> stable update series on
-         kernel.org
-       </li>
-      </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
+      and PCI code as necessary
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
+      maintenance aside from ports
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Maintaining Linux 3.2.<var>y</var> stable update series on
+      kernel.org
     </li>
   </ul>
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       needs new tools - <tt>teamd</tt>, <tt>teamnl</tt>, etc.
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  See
+      Make it work: see
       <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/695850">http://bugs.debian.org/695850</a>
     </li>
   </ul>
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Transcendent memory [3.0-3.5]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Abstract storage for memory pages, expected to be slower than
+      regular memory but faster than disk
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Can provide a second layer of page cache (cleancache and frontswap)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Pages stored by hypervisor (Xen), compressed local memory
+      (zcache) or cluster of machines (RAMster)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Not yet enabled in Debian kernels, and needs some thought about
+      configuration
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work: see
+      <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/">https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/</a>
+      and send proposal to debian-kernel
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>New KMS drivers [3.3-3.10]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      DRM/KMS drivers added for old, new and virtual hardware -
+      AST, DisplayLink, Hyper-V, Matrox G200, QEMU Cirrus
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Should be more robust than purely user-mode drivers, and
+      compatible with Secure Boot
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Current X drivers don't work with these, so the kernel drivers
+      are disabled for now
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work: join the X Strike Force and package the new X
+      drivers
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Module signing [3.7]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Kernel modules can be signed at build time, and the kernel
+      configured to refuse loading unsigned modules
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Necessary but not sufficient to implement Secure Boot -
+      we would also need signed kernel images and some other
+      restrictions when booted in this mode
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make Secure Boot work: come to the meeting on Tuesday
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>More support for discard</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Flash devices (and thin-provisioned SANs) can be more efficient
+      if the filesystem 'discards' unused disk space
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Requires support in hardware, driver, filesystem and any layered
+      device drivers - e.g. LVM, RAID (added in 3.7)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Must be explicitly enabled, but d-i doesn't do this by default
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work: fix <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/690977">http://bugs.debian.org/690977</a>
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>User namespaces [3.7]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      One of the last missing pieces for OpenVZ-like containers
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Each user namespace has its own <tt>root</tt> user with
+      privileges over the users and processes in that namespace - but
+      not the whole system
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Currently somewhat experimental, and requires filesystem
+      changes which haven't been done for XFS
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work: send patches to upstream XFS developers (this
+      one's hard)
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Questions?</h1>
 </div>