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^ Ben Rockwood’s BoF session on “ZFS in the Trenches” at LISA ’09.

at DIA. So what else is new? #
What a cruddy old plane. Why dud I choose United? #
@davewiner the nice thing about Twittef is, if soneone is boring, you can just quit following. Dunno why anyone wd bother to bitch about it in reply to davewiner #
Awaiting 43 lb suitcase at bwi #
Having lebanese food in Baltimore. Then prob a bath and a nap. Surely a 3 hr flight didn’t make me this tired? #
Just stuffed myself on excellent food at the Lebanese Taverna in Baltimore. Will likely be back here this week, with a gang #
whoa. 3.5 hour nap. Who knew I’d get jet lag coming to Baltimore? #
editing video of a very lively speaker. Brendan Gregg is worse to chase around with a camera than Jeff Bonwick. I didn’t always keep up. #
@wendybiird for a minute there I read that as “6 hours closer to having a guilt trip done” in reply to wendybiird #
my time zone is not quite happy with this body #
RT @jeffhuber: RT @comay: W00t – ZFS Deduplication arrives! http://tr.im/DSxR #opensolaris #
RT @rajadurai: ZFS now supports Dedup. Waay cool! http://bit.ly/GI2Sd #
Enjoying walking around downtown Baltimore. The people are very nice. #
now to find out how many years it will take to upload a 770 MB video on hotel bandwidth #
…especially when the hotel is full of sysadmins here for #LISA09 #
@lbridenne76 upstream B/W at this hotel appears slower than at Sun’s Bangalore office. OTOH, hotel is probably not subject to power blinks in reply to lbridenne76 #
on the 28t floor of the Waterfront Marriott. if I had binoculars, I could easily spy on a bunch of conference rooms at Legg Mason #
added photos to my weekly Twitter Diaries: 2009-11-01 http://bit.ly/GIHuq #
Reminder: summer preview of ZFS Dedup: Kernel Conference Australia 2009: Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore keynote – http://bit.ly/onzN3 #
@jeffreytaylor I have a feeling you’re using this in a different context than last time we discussed a lowest common denominator. 😉 in reply to jeffreytaylor #
upload failed. I’m dying from not-surprise. #
running stats. How is it possible that the total number of views for 2009 has gone DOWN since September? Who is negative viewing my videos? #
Being silly with colleagues #
@shawnferry hey, Apple coulda had it… in reply to shawnferry #
see the Solaris Security Summit at #lisa09 live: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/stream1/ #
Bill Cheswick slides here: http://bit.ly/3mWIf9 #
Non-moronic password rule: pick something a friend or colleague won’t guess in a few tries #
#sec09 Bill Cheswick running thru a history of passwords/phrases/faces… #
SLIDES HERE Security Summit November 2009 – wikis.sun.com http://bit.ly/KeCsj #sec09 #lisa09 #
RT @rajadurai: I’m presenting Sun’s x4275 servers. 2U w/ 12 TB disks, 2 x quad core nehalem & 144GB RAM. Register here http://bit.ly/wRS9v #
“when it comes to equal treatment for men and women… Italy slipped to 72nd in the annual Gender Gap Report,” http://bit.ly/3ZURHo #
LISA ’09 Stream 1 http://bit.ly/2IWWoZ – Darren Moffatt speaking on ZFS Crypto #
my workday begins about 6:30 pm today, filming Sun BoFs #lisa09 til 11 pm. #
@serendipitousP thanks, wd love to, but I need to show up at the reception and then prepare to film. Why don’t you guys join us? Food & bev! in reply to serendipitousP #
got a #lisa09 t-shirt. Does this make me Miss Baltimore Crabs? #
okay, folks, we’re doing it again: four HOURS of Sun BoFs at #lisa09 to be streamed starting in about 30 minutes http://bit.ly/388lAG #
$&^%&%& argh. can’t stream tonight’s Sun BoFs after all. Exact same setup as we had for FROSUG last week, now crashes the browser every time #
“Tuesday’s uproar was the latest in a string of flaps over crosses that began at the start of the decade.” http://bit.ly/484zK9 #
@shawnferry I sure could use coffee… in reply to shawnferry #
Neuroimaging Storage Landscape – “@reiger of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research.” http://bit.ly/1MCVDJ #
@serendipitousP I think we’re down to snacks and drinks,but come on down! in reply to serendipitousP #
Woodstock School Class of â€˜81 and Others, ~1979 http://bit.ly/2DA4NS – school nostalgia, including one really dorky picture of me (age 15) #
BigAdmin BoF #lisa09 – problem with stale information on docs.sun.com , blogs are much fresher. Particular praise for Amber Road / Fishworks #
“How much free time do you think we have to read this [Sun] stuff?” <wince> #
@shawnferry how so? #lisa09 in reply to shawnferry #
Brian Leonard talking about how OpenSolaris will evolve into Solarist.Next #lisa09 #
what’s new in Solaris.next? installer, packaging sysstem, networking stack, open storage platform, ZFS Cryptop, GNU tools, FOSS & frameworks #
…zones #lisa09 #opensolaris #
@shawnferry just brought me dark chocolate covered espresso beans – thank you! #
hmm. More people sliding in for our BoF. We need more beer! #
gotta say – Brian Leonard and Dave Miner look like brothers in their matching polo shirts, both tall… #
“The trick is to admit what we want, even if we are scared we wonâ€™t get it.. if we are disappointed, later on, well…” http://bit.ly/2HfDEj #
@shawnferry thanks, these will have me bouncing off the walls shortly in reply to shawnferry #
Solaris.Next deployment principles: scalability & ease of use, deep integ with Solaris svcs, no patching, completely safe updates… #
…better observability and control #opensolaris #solaris #lisa09 #
50+ people here for the Sun BoFs tonight. Not bad at all. #
“It was largely ZFS that was able to get Twitter to where they got” – Ben Rockwood ZFS BoF #zfs #lisa09 #
dumb spreadhsheet error = seriously undercounted some video stats for the last few months. Turns out my vids have aggregated >88k views #
RT @shawnferry: anyone not know what kstats are? (Jim Mauro shoots up hand real quick while ben isn’t looking, back of room laughs) #lisa09 #
@bahamat straight from the horse’s mouth – Ben himself #twitter #zfs in reply to bahamat #
starting to download video from last night’s BoFs. 80 people in the room by 11 pm, several asked where they cd see vid of earlier sessions #
forgetting a lot more little stuff lately than I used to but, damn, I think I have plenty of excuses! #
up earlier than I wanted to be, but shd use the time to get a good breakfast – probably won’t get lunch (booth bunny duty #lisa09 ) #
more Sun BoFs at #lisa09 – Solaris, OpenSolaris, Solaris.Next at LISA ’09 – Sun at LISA09 – wikis.sun.com http://bit.ly/rZjuM #
TED’s Chris Anderson explains why our school (Woodstock) is so special: http://bit.ly/3QAeoe – yes YES YES! #
follow-up: if you really want to know what shaped my soul and remains my first home and family, read this: http://bit.ly/3QAeoe #
bit.ly info on Chris Anderson blog smokes out lots of Woodstockers on Twitter that I didn’t know about! Following other global souls #
RT @lskrocki: Exiting the Sun Ride http://tinyurl.com/y8pfpy9 – augh! #
@bklein34 whoa, deja vu – I just heard Bill Cheswick give that talk yesterday. Video to come. #attsecurity in reply to bklein34 #
@dudulima yeah. How are you guys? in reply to dudulima #
@bklein34 tshirt definitely don’t remember the rest but shorts and sneakers v normal in the LISA crowd in reply to bklein34 #
@bklein34 ps the way u saw me dressed in Chicago not my usual uniform! We do mostly jeans at Sun in reply to bklein34 #
Survivor’s guilt? No. Survivor’s desire to have a stiff drink? Definitely… #
Pinot noir doesn’t count as a stiff drink, but it goes well with hummus #
Little Shop of Performance Horrors – Trailer – Brendan Gregg at FROSUG. Full video as soon as I have bandwidth.” http://bit.ly/3nKehB #
@vdotw I need better wine than what’s being given out on the show floor… in reply to vdotw #
@lskrocki all right! doing it in style with the Widow! in reply to lskrocki #
ZFS, Cache and Flash – Adam Leventhal of Fishworks – Sun Video http://bit.ly/1qcjnj #
Irc client foe iPhone won’t connect, iPhone running out of battery anyway, dead tired and my back hurts. Can I just go to bed now? #
20 people in solaris security bof – and not just for the beer #
@dfugate who all did we lose? in reply to dfugate #
didn’t take pictures, but we drank a nice Chianti and then Pinot Nero, and had pretty authentic Italian food as well. here’s to @lskrocki! #
@PaulSkillicorn I’m ’81 – know your name for sure! in reply to PaulSkillicorn #
why does video so often (but not always) go out of sync with the audio when captured in FinalCut Express? #
time to go recover my lost Sennheiser lapel mic, then go in search of the perfect Eggs Benedict with @rohrer. Maybe more interviews today #
…interviews on the show floor, I mean – no, I am not looking for a job! #
@shawnferry exactly where we just ate! Pretty good Benedict, served on sweet corn cakes in reply to shawnferry #
@shawnferry thanks, I’ll check that in reply to shawnferry #
@shawnferry yup, you’re right – something went wrong in the encoding, my original is fine. Thanks for the heads up in reply to shawnferry #
@shawnferry try it now – had to reupload in reply to shawnferry #
@creepyed ooh, I’d love to go dancing. What kind of dancing are you doing? in reply to creepyed #
Got my Joyent DTrace tshirt. #
1. I don’t think prayer accomplishes anything so 2. I see no point in praying for complete strangers, no matter their tragedy and…. #
3. I see even less point in telling the world that you’re doing so. Tho I do consider it a kind gesture when people I know pray for me… #
…unless, I suppose, they’re doing it because they think I’m going to burn in hell. #
@jscarp I’m not praying for you, but I am thinking of you. in reply to jscarp #
Little Shop of Performance Horrors – Part 1- Brendan Gregg speaks at FROSUG on Oct 29, 2009. http://bit.ly/3r89dH – part 2 is also up! #
Little Shop of Performance Horrors – Part 2 – Sun Video http://bit.ly/dP23D #
@davidpaulyoung only in terms of t-shirts, but I’m particularly proud of this one. 😉 in reply to davidpaulyoung #
@craigmorgan – try it again, I had to re-upload the video because the first time it got corrupted ZFS, Cache and Flash http://bit.ly/1qcjnj #
LISA ’09 Plenary being streamed now: Towards Zero-Emission Datacenters Through Direct Reuse of Waste Heat http://bit.ly/2IWWoZ #

^ my view of Bryan Cantrill’s LISA ’09 talk – I was monitoring the video stream from my hotel room

#LISA09 – Bryan Cantrill – “Visualizing DTrace: Sun Storage 7000 Analytics” http://bit.ly/19Whqh – will stream live 11am US East Coast time #
Ran into Sunay. The Crossbow BoF went on til 130 am! Birds of a feather indeed. good thing I shut the camera down and went to bed at 1130 #
phew, got a late check-out on the room. Too much to do to be hanging around in the lobby til time to go catch my train at 1:30 #
looks as if they switched the streams on me for Bryan: go to http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/stream1/ http://bit.ly/2IWWoZ #
Bryan Cantrill #lisa09 “Use DTrace in anger” #
@pschow Your’e welcome, but the A/V work is being done by Usenix folks – we just paid for it. I’m frustrated by the camera work… in reply to pschow #
damn, damn, damn. Don’t make me come down there and take over that camera. #
Bryan’s a fun speaker – http://bit.ly/2IWWoZ #
if everyone would just do things my way, the world would run much more smoothly. 😉 #
wanted to be in the room, but turns out to be a good thing I’m babysitting the stream – social media production! http://bit.ly/RRxLy #
“We are actually sadists at heart, the idea of torturing machines… thank god we’re in computing and not in biology.” Cantrill #lisa09 #
http://bit.ly/RRxLy – actually LOLling at Bryan – and you don’t have to be a geek to find him funny #
staff meeting with my new boss of boss. Nice to feel welcomed. Lotta people. #
@lskrocki why? looks like a relaxing creative outlet, and a nice change from the keyboard in reply to lskrocki #
On a train from Baltimore to dc. Niceto see fall foliage again #
“he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man’s pre-eminence…” #
“… without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.” Eliot, Middlemarch #
after yrs of waking up 6 days/wk at 6 am with a recalcitrant teen, it is truly one of life’s luxuries to laze in bed w laptop and coffee #