Thursday I went to work. Did stuff but don't remember too many details. I think I talked to people about the NAS/SAN stuff and also OS X. Oh well, days like that happen. Lunch was C1. Between that and 10's going away party (despite lots of people hinting at it, she still hasn't been convinced to stay), they took a decent chunk of the day. That reminds me though since I talked to like 4 people about it separately that it was the day I decided to try and get rid of AFP on Avalon within a week. Somehow that managed to get approved without much hastle (very much to my surprise), and now I have a copy of 10.3 server on it's way to me hopefully in the next day or two. Wednesday night I finished up Season One of Alias. OK, the show is good, but isn't a magazine about just it a little excessive?!? Anyways, Thursday I realized that this whole AFP thing could be somewhat of a mess, even with the original timeline by the end of summer. First off there's the allowed character set. This I should be able to fix with a script to traverse and rename any files with invalid characters. That should be easy. Then there's all these files without extensions. Not a big problem except that the Resource Forks are already in jeopardy due to AFP and SMB access methods storing them differently. I'm pretty sure I've figured out how to read the NTFS AFP_afpInfo stream enough to reliably determine document type and add extensions to any files lacking them. That shouldn't be a problem and is actually looking easier than it sounds. The fun part is the resource forks. One way to get them converted is to copy them down to a Mac through AFP, and then back to the server through SMB. That's suboptimal if not absolutely crazy. There's no way we're gonna get faculty to do their files that way even by the end of summer, and I'm not gonna do it manually and then try to sort out permissions. So reading the resource fork is easy, now I have to figure out how to combine two things into one that's smaller than both separately but doesn't look compressed. Should be a fun day tomorrow. After work hung out talking to people for a while, caught up on my tech reading, and pushed the load average on one of my servers up to in the 140s before killing it. That one was sorta accidental. I needed to clean up 10-15GB on one of my machines, so started a move of around 12GB over from it to one of my fileservers. This is a machine I just booted up yesterday as it had been off until I got around to upgrading the OS on it. Of course this upgrade is because the kernel is old and running an older version of the RAID card driver. So I managed to confuse the driver and had the kernel spewing SCSI errors into messages and promptly blocking IO attempts. Of course the machine which had the server's drive mounted kept trying to reconnect, and ended up with a large collection of defunct smbd processes on the server. Had to hit the power switch since shutdown also blocked. Reiserfs rocks though, and the 240GB drive was up and running within a minute or two with no problems (and that's at around 90% usage). :) Then Ross started talking to me on IM from Cali, which he seems to be enjoying. Then I got to talk to Brad who finally updated his blog too. Hopefully that'll be a trend?