[Techtalk] Course proposal

Aguido Horatio Davis horatio at qpsf.edu.au
Sat Jun 28 20:38:36 EST 2003


On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Meredydd wrote:

> The course would (try to) be accesssible to someone with no idea of how the
> filesystem is put together, teaching the concepts behind it, how to mount
> things, how to use /etc/fstab, taking in NFS and SMB, loopback, chroot jails,
> right the way up to Funky Complicated Stuff like the automounter (which I
> confess I've never got the hang of) and ramdisks.
>
> So - what's your reaction? Would you be interested in all of it? Part of it?
> Which bits?

All of the above, with thanks.

On your way there, any chance of specific discussion on the merits of the
various filesystems (ext{2,3}, ReiserFS, JFS,???) and something on RAIDs?

Cheers,

Horatio





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