On Tuesday 16th May, Steve Whitehouse will talk about the Global File System. 8.30pm
The GlobalFileSystem is a journalled, fault-tolerant, clustered file system. It provides a high-performance solution to many applications where reliability is of foremost concern. The talk will centre upon the applications of the GlobalFileSystem and will also cover the implementation and describe how it interacts with the Linux kernel.
Steve Whitehouse is a software consultant running his own company (ChyGwyn Limited) which mainly takes on contract programming work on Open Source and Linux based projects. He is also in the final stages of writing up his PhD thesis on "Error Resilient Image Compression". Steve first became involved with Linux when he was an undergraduate at the University of Wales, Swansea where he was an active member of the computer society. Steve maintains the Linux DECnet kernel code.
Diary ===== Wednesday 17th May, Linux@work at Wembley, free registration. http://www.ltt.de/linux/lon_00.html
Monday 22nd May - Thursday 25th May Systems And NEtworking Conference 2000, Maastricht, Netherlands http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2000/
Thursday 1st June - Friday 2nd June, Linux Expo, Olympia http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/NewHome.htm
Incorporating The European Linux Conference (Thursday) http://www.suse.de/uk/conference/index.html
Sunday 4th June - OxLUG, 6.30pm. Still TBA.
Thursday 29th June - Sunday 2nd July LinuxTag, Stuttgart, Germany http://www.linuxtag.de/
Sunday 2nd July - OxLUG, 6.30pm. TBA.
Friday 7th July - Sunday 9th July Linux for the Enterprise, Hammersmith, London http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2000/
Alasdair