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comments: 0Let us suppose that you were me. You just got finished with a day in which you got 3 hours of sleep, went to all your classes, went to work and accomplished great things, did well on two tests absolutely necessary for graduation, and get most of the presentation that is due the next day done. At around 9:00, you're ready to pass out. So what do you do?
That's right, you stay up! Because you're not tired, somehow. Besides, the world of filesystems waits for no man. I don't know what kind of fits of idiocy I have been suffering tonight, but they don't seem to end. I thought it'd be really cool to show some ReiserFS4 meta data stuff during my presentation. Of course, I don't know a damn thing about it, other than you can peruse it quite nicely with ls/cat etc. through the pseudo directory "metas".
So of course, I format my laptop ReiserFS4, even though it's all set up and ready to go to present tomorrow. Of course, formatting it ReiserFS4 is a bit more involved than I would have liked, but I'm kind of glad to have had the experience, anyway... I needed something a little closer to get me to appreciate my slackware install scripts. Anyway, I'm still up at 6:00 AM, around when I went to be yesterday, trying to recompile the 2.6.4 so I can get a goddamn framebuffer. For some reason, I have no problem getting all of my hardware to work perfectly (don't bring up cameras or you will die), but the framebuffer always gets me. Damned first option is a red herring.
For some reason, the past few day's I've been coming up with "9" as the answer to "5 + 3". This makes me think that going to sleep at 5 to wake up at 9 is a lost cause; of course, 1 hour later I realize my err, but the statute on any type of sleeping endeavors is gone. In 3 hours, I'll have physics. I have to thank Paul (the TA) for completely saving my ass and getting me about an 85 on the test with his review. Then, I have Comp and Society at 10:30; and given my attendance record, its not something I can miss. Then I have completely necessary Gym class #2 at 12:00, Macro Economics at 1:00, and senior D at 3:30. During most of these classes, I'll be reading my ass off trying to understand fully how ReiserFS4 ensures atomicity with "wandering logs"; Hans might as well have said "smackalicious crack", since it seems to have about as much to do with filesystems as half of the terms that he coins.
I still haven't gotten to the meat of ReiserFS3 in my presentation; but I'm around page 20. I'm not sure if wanting to give a thorough background in filesystems to graduates and in general inteligent people is a waste of my time, but I tend to think that people here do not know their history well. A lot of the stuff I wrote, I didn't know (or at least, was not sure of enough to bring up in something like a presentation without double checking). This probably means that, unless I skimp royally on the Reiser FS', which would be fucking stupid, I'll end up at around 40 or 45 pages. Most of understanding an FS goes to understanding all of the background that led to its development, so it actually wouldn't be all that stupid to have more than ½ of the presentation solely history and trivialties (TOC, Title, etc).
This fit of writing about absolutely nothing of interest to anyone in the world has done its job: I'm in a pseudo awake state and ready to write more about filesystems. Expect a PDF or PS of my presentation and, if they are ever ordered enough and completely written down, the notes that go along with the slides. (I'd prefer .ps, but OOo seems to only export pdf).