OLS 2005 - day 5
Because of the hackfest, I decided to sleep a little late so I got up at 10:03, which meant, I missed about half of the first talk on pktgen. The second half wasn’t really that exciting. Afterwards, I went to the dmraid talk. It seemed quite cool, but useless since I don’t have a pseudo-hardware raid. Then I ate at:
Then I went to a talk about Active Block I/O scheduling, but instead of paying attention, I was on IRC helping Con debug Interbench. :-) Then I went to the next talk, about safe/idiot-proofed kernel probes. Quite interesting. During the talk I tried to download the Novel Linux Kernel Debugger to play with, but the patch is only against SuSE’s kernel which is based on 2.6.5-ish (read: awful).
Afterwards, I went to a network flow accounting talk, which I didn’t pay attention to iether, because of Con - he’s very disruptive :-P Then I went to these BOFs: Linux Device Persistant Naming Policy, 2 talks about Linux Clusters, and Linux Power Management. Inbetween I took photos of some people that are interesting:
Donald Becker (Beowulf creator - for all intents and purposes):
Pavel Machek (software suspend):
Jim Gettys (X11 co-author):
Then we (Shawn and I) went to the hotel, and ordered pizza:
This is what the pizza looked like before we ate it:
We flushed it down with:
