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Guess what I worked on today? That’s right, timeout and interrupt handling. Made some more progress, talked with Phil and Andreas quite a bit about some painful behaviour we were seeing in the truncate path, the usual. When Peter gets back from China or wherever he is now, I’ll probably start on the recovery daemon’s side of the picture, which should be a huge pile of fun.

It was Christina’s last day at work today — not that I work with her or anything, but she’s a friend and her job was nearby — so Alasdair and Tyla and I took her out for lunch, and then everyone-but-Tyla went to see Goldmember. In the middle of the day, and everything!

When I got back to the office, it was time for a bit of Quake, and a bit of bitchcake setup, and then more Lustre puttering. I was expecting to hear from the people who are setting up the cluster, because I hear from them pretty much every day, but there was nothing. Maybe I ticked them off when, a few days ago, I sent a relatively forceful email to them indicating that our piece of the puzzle had outrageously minimal requirements, and that if they hadn’t been apparently reinventing the wheel in a new, squarer configuration, they would already have installed the configuration on which we’ve been testing for months. I didn’t have much choice, really, since they had something like a dozen people asking me over and over about this stuff, and it was getting kinda old.

I wouldn’t have been as cranky if we had a cluster to test on by now, but, alas, we don’t. I may well end up with access to the LLNL development cluster before the act is gotten together in a satisfactory way.

In preparation for neon’s upcoming move, I’ve been digging through my home directory. There’s some neat old stuff in there, including, of course, some mail I should have replied to 6 years ago. Brika, I’m sorry!

(I cleaned the windows before hitting the office today, so it’s safe to go home now. And I shall.)