Ryan Arneson's Weblog

Since the dear wife is out of town for a few days, I'd thought I'd take the bike into the office and get some odds and ends done. It's only a 8 mile ride to the campus here in Broomfield from my place in northeast Westminster. My shortcut takes me west along Midway Blvd. until about the Hunter Douglas buildings. From there, I take a dirt path over the railroad tracks, under US 36, into the Interlocken Office Park and on to the Sun Campus. Those of you in the Denver area know that we've gotten a lot of snow and rain the last few days so there was a chance for mud, however as far as I could recall the dirt track was actually mostly sand and gravel. Overall, I felt fairly safe in taking that route. Again, as far as I recall, sand and gravel.

I recalled wrong. It was wet sticky clay. About 200 yards of it down a steep hill to the railroad tracks and then back up the gully to the pavement. So here I sit in my office, covered in mud, my bike, sitting in the bike lockers outside, is weighed down by about 10 pounds of clay. Good thing it's Saturday. Should be a lovely ride home

On to the obligatory introductions! I'm a Test drone from sector 7G in the Network Storage division here in Broomfield, Colorado. I mostly dream up ways of acting like a customer and then break stuff accordingly, in the hopes of getting problems noticed before they hit customers. My focus is more on Customer Emulation of workloads than your normal Functional or System Test.

Right now, I'm mainly focused on incorporating Oracle RAC with various bits and pieces of Network Storage products, the QFS filesystem software in particular. I'll post various tidbits of interest as I go along.

A quick caveat though, I have no responsibility for any official qualifications at the moment, QFS, Oracle, Cluster or otherwise, so don't take any particular configuration you may see here as being officially being supported by Sun or Oracle. Check with the "Official Docs"(tm) at all times.