NFSv4 Mirror Mounts and a CEO who cares
First, let me congratulate the NFS team on delivering Mirror Mounts! This greatly simplifies how NFS clients view and manage a server's namespace. From Tom Haynes' blog:
Mirror Mounts enhances the NFSv4 clients to automatically mount filesystems when they are encountered at the NFSv4 server; this enhancement does not require the use of the automounter and therefore does not rely on the content or propagation of automounter maps. An example of the utility of this feature is in the presence of ZFS at the NFS server. With the ease of creation and management of numerous ZFS filesystems, the enhanced NFSv4 client will immediately provide access to the newly created and shared ZFS filesystems.
Gotta love it. I guess this project is reflective of the geographically distributed nature of the team - one team, many locations.
Now, for fear of being accused of copious brown-nosing...
With all of Sun's recent announcements about innovation in storage software within Solaris, getting an email from one's CEO congratulating and encouraging our team on the progress made goes a long way to keeping morale high. Such an email from a CEO could easily be content and emotion-free (eg: "Thanks."
. Well whoopdeedoo for us. But that's not Jonathan. Even if his emails are brief, they're sincere and specific. He really does care about what his staff is up to. Thank you, Jonathan, it is appreciated!
Go Rockies! Red Sox fans, meet Matt Holliday. For those at Fenway Park siting in the outfield, be sure to bring your gloves. You're gonna need them.
Posted at 03:43PM Oct 23, 2007 by Don Traub in General |