Ric Wheeler

Ric Wheeler

Red Hat

Biography

Ric works at Red Hat as the manager and architect of the file system team. He has extensive experience in storage and file systems after spending ten years at EMC in its Symmetrix and Centera groups, four years at The Open Group’s Research Institute and four years at Thinking Machines working on the CM5 operating system.

In the distant past, Ric worked on the original MOSIX process migration system at Hebrew University’s distributed systems laboratory. For the past ten years, he has been active in the Linux file system and IO world where he helped organize workshops, inform open source developers about high end storage and helped advance the robustness of the Linux IO & file system stack.

Sessions for this user

* New and Not Ready for Prime Time - Short Lightning Talks

Reserved time to discuss new ideas in an open conversation. (slides)
File and Storage Systems II
Ric Wheeler, Dhaval Giani

* SCSI midlayer scalability (Christoph Hellwig)

SCSI midlayer scalability work done by Christoph Hellwig
File and Storage Systems II
Ric Wheeler

* Shingled Drive Impace on File and Storage Stack

Shingled drives need changes to file and storage to get the best efficiency.
File and Storage Systems II
Ric Wheeler