[svlug-announce] SVLUG General Meeting, March 5th, Dan Kegel on the Zumastor Linux Storage Project

[Mark Weisler]

Join the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) this coming Wednesday to 
learn about the Zumastor Linux Storage Project from Dan Kegel.

 WHEN:
   Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
   7pm-9pm

MAIN PRESENTATION:
The Zumastor Linux Storage Project

PRESENTED BY:
Dan Kegel-who has a day job at Google and was recently elected release manager 
for Wine 1.0.
  
 TOPIC SUMMARY:
 
Ever wonder why people use fancy commercial file servers instead of plain old 
Linux? Two big reasons are: LVM snapshots don't scale well, and rsync 
replication doesn't scale well. Zumastor is a GPL'd effort to solve both 
problems; it consists of a device mapper target that handles efficient 
volume-level snapshotting of filesystems, and a userspace app that handles 
efficient replication of volume snapshots to remote machines. Dan Kegel will 
discuss Zumastor in slightly more detail, then walk through how to set up a 
pair of Zumastor servers before your very eyes. Or read zumastor.org's 
excellent howto, and try it yourself before the talk!

   ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Dan Kegel is another one of those Unix curmudgeons who learned how to design 
and program computers back when 8 bit processors were new, and still thinks 
vi is cool. He got root in '82. He is now happily employed at Google, 
recently helped get Photoshop CS2 running on Linux by improving Wine, and was 
elected release manager for Wine 1.0 at Wineconf '07.


 NIFTY OF THE MONTH:
Not this month.

 LOCATION:

   Symantec  (formerly Veritas Software Corp.)
   VCAFE Facility
   350 Ellis Street  (near E. Middlefield Road)
   Mountain View, CA 94043

   Directions on how to get there are listed at:
   http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.php

   We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
   If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
   webmaster {at} svlug -dot- org


 MEETING REFRESHMENTS:

Robert Half Technology plans to bring snacks for the meeting.

 POST-MEETING GATHERING:

   If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
   restaurant/diner after the meeting.  We'll announce the restaurant
   selection at the meeting.


 We look forward to seeing you there!
-- 
Mark Weisler 
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