Monday January 21, 2008 Alan Perry's Blog
Monday January 21, 2008 Last Thursday, I presented an OpenSolaris talk at a meeting of the Palouse section of the IEEE at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. The topics of my talk were an Intro to OpenSolaris, DTrace and ZFS.
I didn't select the topics. Sun's campus coordinator, who made the arrangements for the talk, did.
The talk was interesting to prepare, because I had 60 minutes to present on three topics that each could have easily taken up a full hour (or more). I have done presentations on Solaris and OpenSolaris before, so that part was pretty easy. I use DTrace all of the time, so that part was easy to prepare as well. However, the ZFS part ... well ...
I didn't know a lot about ZFS. When I tried to set-up some Firewire disks to get familiar with ZFS, the scsa1394 driver panicked and I didn't get much beyond that. I researching ZFS and started to write a presentation, but I ran out of time and used Eric Kustarz' ZFS presentation.
As might be expected, the introduction to Solaris and OpenSolaris and DTrace portions of the talk went off well. The DTrace part would have been a little better with some demos, but time was short. However, the ZFS portion of a bit of a mess. I had gone through the slides and thought that I understood everything and could explain things, but realized that I couldn't as I was making the presentation and trying to answer questions. At least I got the key points about ZFS out there for the people who were unfamiliar with it.
Fortunately, I get a chance to make up for the botched ZFS presentation. I will be back in Pullman on February 7th to make a 40 minute presentation just on ZFS.
( Jan 21 2008, 02:20:07 PM PST ) Permalink
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