[osdevcon-discuss] proceedings from the first osdevcon

[max at bruningsystems.com]

Hi Dirk and Jim,Dirk Wetter wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> good hearing again from you ;-)
>
> Am 12/04/2007 09:50 PM, max at bruningsystems.com schrieb:
>   
>> Hi All,
>> I just signed up for this mailing list as I am considering presenting a 
>> paper or tutorial.  Was this the same format for the first
>> OpenSolaris Developer's Conference?  If so, are the proceedings on 
>> line?  If so, I would like to take a look so that I have
>> some idea of format(s) used, so, where are they?
>>     
>
> The old material is at http://www.osdevcon.org/2007 (see
> further readings) or at Tim Foster's page (forgot the URL).
>
> Most people used their formatting -- if this is what you are asking? We somehow
> wanted to make our GUUG styles we used for another purpose ready for use for
> major programs (TeX, OOo/Sun StO, cough.. Word), but as this requires some work:
> we are not that far yet.
>   
I have taken a look at the "further reading" link, but it looks like 
this is only slides from papers presented.  Are there
any tutorials posted?  I want to do something with ZFS.  Specifically, 
here's what I want to do...
Given a file path name for a file on a ZFS file system, locate the file 
data on disk.  That is, with the file system
not mounted.  The purpose is twofold.  One, I want to understand (and 
explain) how data and metadata is actually
organized on the disk(s) making up a zfs file system.  The other purpose 
is that I think this would be useful
for debugging purposes in the (unlikely?) event that a zfs file system 
gets so fouled up, it is not mountable.
I can use a combination of mdb/zdb to do most of this, but I may end up 
making changes to mdb and or zdb
to get what I want.  I can either just show how I accomplish this 
(assuming I can accomplish this) i.e., present a paper,
or have attendees follow along on their machines (ie., a tutorial).  For 
a tutorial, I am not sure how long this
will take (since I haven't finished this yet myself).  But I am thinking 
this is not longer that 1-2 hours regardless.

I think this will end up documenting quite a bit of zdb.  One issue I 
have with this is that I suspect there are people
within Sun already documenting zdb, or they are working on a new tool, 
or they are working on modifying mdb
to accomplish this.  I have asked something about this on the 
zfs-discuss mailing list, but was basically ignored (I guess
since my question wasn't really sys admin related).

I guess I am still deciding what I would like to present for this, and 
so am just throwing my ideas out to
get some feedback.

thanks,
max