On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:53:49PM -0400, bofh wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. > > Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, > > don't rely on it being there). > > Something like the infamous googlefs? I'd be interested. Lots of difficult > things still left to do. Dom0 xen would be interesting. zfs in openbsd > would be interesting - zfs still have lots of things that are unsolved, so > would be good fodder.
Better yet, Dtrace. John Birrell has finished the kernel bits using a "shim layer" to overcome the licensing incompatibilities (according to him). ZFS, while very cool, is still under heavy development. Dtrace is extremely useful for profiling system behavior, and really has no equal. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
