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At the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Luis Chamberlain led a plenary session on kernel support for block sizes larger than 4KB. There are assumptions in the current kernel that the block size used by a block-layer device is less than or equal to the system's page size—both are usually 4KB today. But there have been efforts over the years to remove that restriction; that work may be heading toward fruition, in part because of the folio efforts of late, though there are still lots of areas that need attention.

At the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Hannes Reinecke led a plenary session ostensibly dedicated to the "limits of development". The actual discussion focused on the frustrations of the kernel development process as experienced by both developers and maintainers. It is probably fair to say that no problems were solved here, but perhaps the nature of some of the challenges is a bit more clear.

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