[CDBUG-talk] REMINDER: CDBUG TOMORROW January 13 - David Cross on FreeBSD's GEOM

[Brian Callahan]

Hi CDBUG --

Tomorrow the weather is supposed to play nice all day so we're good to go for our monthly CDBUG meeting. This month will feature speaker David Cross on FreeBSD's GEOM layer, including a demonstration of full disk encryption. Hope to see you there! And bring your friends.

We will be meeting at INOC, 80 State St., Albany. The meeting will begin at 6:45 PM.

~Brian

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Abstract:
One of the most important aspects of running systems is configuring and
managing disks; the FreeBSD "GEOM" system is an extraordinarily powerful
modular system for configuring and controling 'flow' of data through the
system. With this plugin system you can interface with BIOS 'softraid'
systems, partitioning, encryption, device scheduling, remotely attached
storage, multipathing, and caching to just name a few provided modules
on every FreeSBD system. A demonstration of full disk encryption will be
part of the talk.

Speaker Bio:
David Cross has spent most of his professional career working with
FreeBSD; First as the Laboratory Director for the Department of Computer
Science at Rensselaer.  From there he designed and supported the
infrastructure for the website OkCupid.  Recently he's helped to develop
the website whosay.com that lets celebreties syndicate themselves to the
world of social media; and currently helps people receive their
ecommerce orders on time by working on the Platform and Pipeline teams
at CommerceHub.