Roger, Houston, the pNFS eagle has landed
Our second distribution of the pNFS binaries (with source this time) were posted to OpenSolaris.org this morning. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by the team. I'd like to congratulate everyone on that team.
It's never easy to let the bits leave the nest when we know they aren't perfect. Still, it was time to let them fly free. By releasing these bits early, the NFS team shows they are strong with the ways of OpenSolaris, and I'm proud of that.
I know many people both inside & outside of Sun are skeptical about the whole OpenSolaris thing for a variety of reasons. It takes patience to build a community. Hopefully, our actions help. I think the NFS team has demonstrated a great deal of moxy by releasing not just bits, but the source code for a project well in advance of it's integration into the "golden" source base.
Posted at 01:56PM Jun 26, 2007 by webaker in General |
The Nature of blogs
I have recently paused to consider the nature of blogs. What kind of assumptions should the reader of a blog make about what they are reading? Is it "caveat emptor"?
When the blog phenomenon started, I initially considered these to be a personal, on-line diary. As such, I would consider them the personal views of the author and I would treat them no differently than a letter to the editor in the newspaper.
But, what about professional blogs, like this one? Are we still reading the personal views of the author or something else?
Suppose that the president had a blog. I wouldn't expect any personal insight there; in fact, I'd expect the blog to be written by a staffer and very carefully wordsmithed and spin controlled. That's the nature of politics. After all, it is the president's "official" blog and to a certain extent, an official communication of the government.
Professional blogs are probably somewhere in the middle, between the spin and polish of a president or ceo's blog and a teen-ager's blog about what's cool. Given that, how should the reader view the information presented?
I was recently disheartened to see a professional blog entry being given the kind of spin & polish I describe above. The result was an extremely biased and slanted entry that did not give the topic a fair treatment and left out any detail which put the technology in an unfavorable light. It amounted to little more than corporate propaganda foisted by some well meaning, but perhaps misguided employees.
Is this appropriate content for professional blogs and should the readers read all entries with "a grain of salt"? What do you think?
Bill Baker
Posted at 10:11AM Jun 21, 2007 by webaker in General |
Hello from austin, kstats for NFSv4 client delegation
Greetings, all, My name is Bill Baker and I've been working on NFS at Sun for about 5 years. My main area of development has been the delegation feature of NFSv4. Delegation can reduce the amount of over-the-wire traffic between a client and server. You can look at some interesting client side stats by using the kstat command. Try kstat -n nfs4_callback_stats. In particular, the field "delegations" shows the number of delegations that the client currently has. The field "cb_recall" tells you the number of times the server has had to recall a delegation from this client. Enjoy, web
Posted at 09:15AM May 11, 2005 by webaker in General | Comments[1]