On Jul 31, 2009, at 7:24 AM, m...@bruningsystems.com wrote:
Hi Ross,
Ross wrote:
#3 zfs unlike other things like the build system are extremely
well documented. There are books on it, code to read and even
instructors (Max Bruning) who can teach you about the internals.
My project even rganized a free online training for this....
Again, brilliant if you're a programmer.
I think it is a misconception that a course about internals is meant
only for programmers.
An internals course should teach how the system works. If you are a
programmer, this
should help you to do programming on the system. If you are an
admin, it should help
you in your admin work by giving you a better understanding of what
the system is doing.
If you are a user, it should help you to make better use of the
system. In short, I think anyone
who is working with Solaris/OpenSolaris can benefit.
I agree with Max, 110%. As an example, for the USENIX Technical
Conference I
put together a full day tutorial on ZFS. It was really 2.5 days of
tutorial crammed
into one day, but hey, you get more than you pay for sometimes :-). I
kept the
level above the source code, but touching on the structure of the
system, the on-disk
format, why nvlists are used, and discussed a few of the acronyms seen
in
various messages or references. To get into the source code level, you
are
looking at a week or more of lecture (and growing).
I am planning a sys-admin oriented version of this tutorial for the
USENIX LISA
conference in November. I intend to move away from the technical (how
this is
done) and more towards the operational (practical, sane
implementations).
If anyone has suggestions for topics to be covered, please drop me a
line.
Also, if anyone wants to schedule some time at their site for
training, I'm more
than happy to travel :-)
-- richard
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