[osdevcon-discuss] proceedings from the first osdevcon

[Dirk Wetter]

Hi Max,

happy new year first!

On 12/05/2007 09:18 AM, max at bruningsystems.com wrote:

> 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.

1-2 hours is not much for a tutorial. Half a day would be 3.5 hours.
>From my experience if you let people try a bit and the Q&A in a tutorial:
that eats time. If you ask me as a speaker (on other occasions): If it's
a new topic I would try a talk first, later a tutorial. But YMMV (and those
of others) ...

> 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.

Why not doing something similar as you presented on Tech Days? YOu can
also submit more than one talk....



Best / Schöne Grüße,

	Dirk

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