just a reminder that we're still on for tomorrow (monday)
evening (18:30, TAUB 6, i believe?).
i send updated slides to webmaster, hopefully they'll be on
haifux.org sometime soon.
if they're not there and someone wants a copy, let me know and
i'll send you a copy later tonight. note that i
just do me a favor - DON'T register under the title Haifa
linux club member or something similar - i had enough
problems at work after the fiasco with Moshic Afia on Once in
a life time of yes, several years ago... people kept
reminding me of that show for more then a year after it was
shown on
(top-posting. yey!)
just as an example - we are using CentOS at work. We needed to
touch something in the kernel - so we changed the code and
compiled it. we Stumbled into bugs in various
networking-related packages - so we took the srpms, read the
source and fixed some bugs. we had a kernel
In this story, we'll follow the life story of alice - a
file-systemized I/O request, and bob - a raw-device I/O
request, from their birth, until they reach heaven (the disk
or the USB camera or...).
In addition, we will cover some system parameters that affect
I/O requests, the buffer cache,
