After reading UNIX file systems, I got to be a bit of a file system junkie. The book does a good job of covering file system design, the block I/O interfaces, caching, the VFS and VNODE abstractions, and the implementation of FFS, VxFS and EXT3. The book piqued my interest in file systems, so I [...]
I met with a vendor this week to discuss one of their software solutions, and as part of the 2-hour meeting I was hoping to get further details on how their solution worked, how it scaled, what was required to deploy and manage it, how other customers were applying their technology, and most importantly how [...]
I recently got back from the annual USENIX technical conference, and thought I would BLOG about my adventures while I was in Boston. The following is a day-by-day breakdown of the sessions and events I attended: Day 1 The first day I arrived, I attended a presentation from Alex Russell titled “Ajax and Advanced Responsive [...]
I will be attending USENIX next week in Boston, and am contemplating putting together a SysAdmin BOF. If you are planning to attend the conference and are interested in a systems BOF, drop me a line.
I met up this week with one of my friends that I haven’t seen in a while. We chatted about life, work and eventually started chatting about Linux and Solaris (we are both SysAdmins). My friend mentioned that his company had decided to quit buying Sun hardware in favor of Dell servers running Redhat Linux [...]
I read the following Wired article in disgust. If the information is correct, this is yet another infringment on US citizen’s privacy, and an abuse of our government’s powers. Why can’t the government adhere to FISA? I am glad to see that the EFF filed a lawsuit against AT&T, and plan to follow this case [...]
