[Tux3] Hi all, I'm a weak coder but you've my full support

[Michael Keulkeul]

Hi !

Ok so I'll start with cloning the mercurial repository, and alway keep
an eye on this project !

I started digging a bit into the code but I must confess I feel like a
newborn just poping into reality... Bah it makes my brain work a lot
which is essentially a good thing !

Good luck, anyway ! I'll to catch up things, starting with
understanding your notes.

Best reagards


Michael


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Daniel Phillips <phillips at phunq.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 August 2008 17:13, Michael Keulkeul wrote:
>> Hi all !
>>
>> I'm a modest Linux lover which has a lot of interest in file systems
>> and storage. Nobody is perfect, You must know I'm working at netapp,
>> but I hope this is going to change soon (Paris suxx, I must leave this
>> town)
>>
>> I've seen a query for easy NVRAM not limited with write cycles, I may
>> have a stupid trick that you could use : Use a cheap laptop (battery
>> backed of course, 1G ethernet give better latencies) and export an
>> iSCSI or AoE Lun using a ramdrive as backend. It's not as fast as
>> memory, but it's as fast as flash and does not die that quickly on
>> massive overwrites. Nice other thing is that multiple initiators can
>> use it, so it's not as expensive as it appears.
>>
>> Let me know if I can help anywhere (I can translate into french for
>> exemple) I'll do my best to support a project like this.
>>
>> Michael B.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> A weak coder becomes a strong coder by reading code and writing code -
> every day, for fun.
>
> As it happened, my initial demonstration of Ramback (see "faster than
> a speeding bullet") was done on a laptop.  I did not fail to notice
> that the battery essentially turns a laptop into NVRAM, as long as you
> have software like Ramback that can get the memory onto disk before
> the battery runs out.
>
> There is always a way to help with a project, just keep your eyes open
> and watch what is going on.  Try cloning the mercurial reposititory
> and see if that works for you, then run "make" and "make tests", and
> see if the tests run ok.  Check out the output from the tests and see
> if you can make sense of what is going on.  If not, come back here and
> ask.
>
> Try reading the code and figuring out how it works.  If you don't see
> why it does something a particular way, ask.  That means we probably
> should have a comment in the code there.  That kind of feedback is
> helpful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>

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