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Well, I’m heading down to Melbourne for LCA 2008 in a few hours. I’m not exactly excited by the length of the trip (SKW6084 and UAL839) but I’m definitely looking forward to attending LCA and to seeing Melbourne. It looks like a nice city. It’s a shame that I didn’t arrange to stay longer. Ah, well.

I’ll be giving a talk on CRFS while I’m down there. I did a practice run for a small audience of friendly Linux folks in Portland which was well received so I have high hopes that people at the conference will enjoy it. I know I certainly enjoy talking about this technology, but, well, I guess I would ;).

I thought I’d share a slide from the talk that I find geeky and satisfying:

The slide is demonstrating a particularly weird behaviour of the Linux NFS client adorably called silly renaming. I like the slide because it’s using a relatively small set of system calls to illustrate how differently NFS can behave than “local” file systems. I use it during the talk to illustrate one of my primary motivations for working on CRFS — that we have a network file system that doesn’t penalize its users by requiring that their applications know to work around its behavioural quirks.

Anyway, if this stuff interests you I hope you’ll come have fun at the talk with us.